How to use massage with movement part 2; techniques to make your treatments more effective.

Welcome to part two of our massage with movement series! Part two focuses on work we can do to relieve fatigued and tight muscles in the leg. Do your clients spend all day seated at a desk? Are they cyclists? The idea here is that the longer and stronger muscles are the better they perform.

To recap on part one take a look at how you can affect more change in your lower back treatments here.

Now lets dive straight into the techniques to lengthen and strengthen the muscles in the legs that commonly cause our clients issues!

Working on the upper legs - quadriceps

Incase you need a reminder of the surface anatomy for tensor fasciae latae (TFL) check this out...

Working on the ankle - tibialis anterior

Here Chris demonstrates how you can make your treatments more effective through massage with movement. Here we work on the tibialis anterior to increase flexibility in the ankle. For runners this would be about shin splints.



Signposting for further techniques

Shoulders

Lower back