Children's massage is the best way to prevent most diseases that lay in wait for the baby in the early months of development. Even a short manual impact on the surface of the baby's calf can positively affect the work of its organs. Absolutely all the functional systems of young children react to the effects of the massage therapist. The final result largely depends on the correctness of the lessons.
The Benefits of a Baby Massage
Massage brings an irreplaceable variety of benefits to the child. It promotes active stimulation of development and complete relaxation of soft tissues. Also, professional massage allows you to quickly identify any unnecessarily tense areas of the body, as well as places of acute discomfort or full rigidity (immobility). A good, quality massage is a fruitful means of satisfying the child's inherent need for physical contact. It is a remedy that can provide the baby with a significant advantage in further development. Massage will allow him to properly relax in time and then move freely.
Therapeutic massage helps the child cope with such deviations as flat feet, torticollis and clubfoot. It is successfully used to relieve pain in intestinal colic, muscle hypertension (they suffer many babies) and hypotonia. There are effective therapeutic massage therapies for children with central nervous system diseases, torso and limb asymmetry, congenital muscular torticollis, congenital joint dislocations, hip dysplasia, congenital clubfoot, umbilical hernia, deformity of the foot shape.
Different procedures can be carried out with children of different ages. However, any impact on the muscles and skin of the child leads to good results after several sessions of therapeutic massage. In general, there are only three types of children's massage: therapeutic, therapeutic and corrective and preventive. And therapeutic massage - the most complex, requiring a professional approach. With its help it is possible not only to eliminate pathology, but also to consolidate the result obtained, to prevent the possibility of relapses.
Special methods of children's massage
During the therapeutic massage, the dosed mechanical irritations are applied to the naked body of the child with special techniques that are performed by the hands of the masseur. When using a massage for children, classical techniques are used, but they are performed softer and more gentle (especially methods of shock vibration). In the therapeutic massage for children, 4 main methods are used: the reception of stroking, rubbing, kneading and vibration.
Stroking affects the nerve endings of the upper layer of the skin. Light stroking massage relaxes and soothes, so the movements in it should be very gentle. Stroking can act at the level of the superficial layers of the skin, relaxing the strained muscles (with hypertonia) and strengthening the inhibitory process in the cortex of the child's brain. This method is made by the palm surface of the hand with a gentle, soft touch. During the first three months of life in children (even with increased nervous excitability), you can apply only a gentle stroking massage.
Rubbing is also stroking, but more intense and deeper. It promotes general relaxation of muscles, reducing the excitability of the nervous system of the baby. You can produce it with the help of one, two or three fingers and the palm surface of the brush in a circular motion clockwise from the brush to the shoulder. Movements are more energetic than with ordinary stroking. This treatment has a therapeutic effect on the deeper layers of the baby's skin.
Mashing is similar to grinding, but in the course of it there is an even deeper therapeutic effect on the entire body. With the help of three fingers (index, middle and nameless), a number of circular and forward movements are simultaneously performed, energetically kneading the muscles of the child.
The reception of vibration is carried out with the help of one, two or all fingers. In the course of it, pressure should be applied to the tissues with the pads and the palm or back surface of the straightened fingers. You can also perform vibration with the entire palm of your hand or just the supporting part of the brush. Reception is carried out with one or both hands.