How To Give A Deep Therapeutic Massage Video

Deep tissue massage can shed weeks of stress. Learn the art of giving deep therapeutic massage in this health video.

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Roll a forearm up back of leg
Use elbow
Open and close hands

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Melisa Brown is a licensed massage therapist specializing in Thai Massage, Shiatsu, Pre-Natal Massages for expecting mothers, Post Mastectomy Massages, and more. Brown was trained at the Educating Hands School of Massage in Miami, and the Institute of Thai Massage in New Jersey. She is currently a teacher at the Educating Hands School of Massage.

MELISA BROWN: Hi, my name is Melisa Brown and I'm a licensed massage therapist here in Miami, Florida. I'm with U Need A Massage. In this clip, I'm going to talk about how to give a deep therapeutic massage. When you're giving a deep-tissue massage, I'm using anything but my fingers because that's the best way to overuse them. So my other tools are my forearms and my elbows. I'm going to be doing the back of the leg. And starting with my forearm - and I'm using a meatier part of the forearm as opposed to the bone close to the wrist - and I'm leaning forward facing the leg and I'm holding the leg over here to stabilize it, and I'm just going very slowly moving up. I'm going over the knee. I'm not going deeper with the knee. I'm just kind of jumping over that bridge and I'm going to continue on the back of the thigh. I can do both arms. I can go in very deep. I can also use my elbow to do a pressure point and just go in by opening the arm. It makes it a deeper move. And opening up the arm, it makes a deeper move. You can do this all over your body. You can do it through the back, the arms. I can also guide my arm coming around, jumping over the back of the leg again and just pressing it, and I'm not pressing with anything other than my foot pushing me, and I'm rounding it off.

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