DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE

It is a massage technique for therapeutic purposes, currently it is one of the most requested
massages in the Spas.
Their manipulations are slow and deep, resting on different parts of the hand, forearms and
elbows.
The basic approach of this massage is to descontract the muscles through the application of
mechanical forces that press, slide, move and stretch the tissues allowing their rehydration
and flexibilization.
During the manipulations of this type of massage the muscles lengthen or fold at the point
where the contracture is repairing and organizing the tissue, even favors healing.
The Deep Tissue massage allows us to go beyond the muscles of the superficial plane so it
is used to relieve muscle pain in the back, neck, as well as destroy fibrosis. This type of
massage can relieve the blockage of oxygen and nutrients caused by stress. A Deep Tissue
massage in which the muscles and connective tissues are intensely worked favors the
elimination of toxins, relieves muscle tension and promotes blood circulation, therefore its
oxygenation in addition to benign joint mobility.

Work order by body segments:

Prone cube: Supine cube:
Back Left leg
Left arm Right leg
Right arm Right arm
Left leg Left arm
Right leg Chest
Neck

EXPLANATION OF MANIPULATIONS:
1. The massage starts in prone position.
 2. Contact is made with the receiver, slight carpal pressures with the hypothenar
region.
3. The back is discovered
4. Oil is applied throughout the area to work (neck, back, arms, hands) with effleurage.
5. Sliding with fists in the paravertebral musculature, returning with sliding
movements.
6. Palm finger digits in the paravertebral musculature, from cervical to lumbar
7. Sliding with the thumbs crossed along the column on paravertebral (another option
slide the thumb on vertebrae in the transverse spine)
8. Landslides with the base of the palm of the hand reinforcing from lumbar to
cervical.
9. Transverse glides to the side of the back with the palm of the hand and then with
the thumbs from lumbar to cervical, returning with cervical to lumbar glides.
10. Linear movements with the base of the palm of the hand and the fingertips from
lumbar to cervical
11. Slides with the base of the hand and thumbs in the lumbar region (transverse) from
paravertebral following lumbar square fibers
12. Thumb rubbing in the lumbar region forming three lines
13. Linear and vibratory movements from the 12th dorsal vertebra to the cervical.
14. Sliding with the fingertips in the inter-scapular region.
15. Rubbing with the fingertips in the inter-scapular region (option with the tenar
region).
16. Scapula traction (can be done before the shoulder stretch traction)
17. Repeat manipulations on the other side of the scapula
18. Landslides in the ulnar edge and thumb in the inter-scapular region
19. Rubbing with the fists in the upper part of the trapeze
20. Kneading in the upper part of the trapeze
21. Sliding across the back
22. Digitopresion
23. Percussions
24. Neurocutaneous manipulations.

Left arm
1. Longitudinal landslides in the palm of the hand
2. Transverse landslides in the palm of the hand
3. Rubbing with the fist
4. Rubbing with the thumbs opening spaces in the carpal region
5. Landslides in forearm
6. Kneeling in the forearm
7. Rubbing with the forearm knuckles
8. Arm slip
9. Rubbing with the knuckles simultaneously on the back of the arm
 10. Adduction and elevation of the arm to place it on top of the hair and knead there
11. Digit price in the internal condyle
12. Percussions
13. Neurocutaneous manipulations
REPEAT HANDLING ON THE RIGHT ARM

Right leg
1. Leg pressures
2. We discovered leg
3. Oil application with euffleurage from foot to thigh
4. Slides with palm of the hand on the foot
5. Linear landslides plantal region
6. Transverse landslides in the plantal region
7. 8-shaped fist rubbing in the plantal region
8. Rub with the palm of the hand on the heel
9. Euffleurage from ankle to thigh 3 times
10. Leg slips reinforcing the price on the back side
11. Rubbing with knuckles and / or fingertips
12. Kneading leg
13. Split twins with thumbs
14. Euffleurage ankle to thigh and we stay in thigh
15. Rubbing with knuckles inner, middle and outer thigh face
16. Internal, middle and external thigh kneading
17. digit pressure
18. leg pressures
19. Percussions throughout the leg
20. Euffleurage from foot to thigh
21. Neurocutaneous manipulations (ascending movements from popliteal cavity
to the gluteal line)
REPEAT MANIPULATIONS ON THE OTHER LEG

SUPINE DECUBITUS
LEG
1. Leg pressures on the sheet
2. We discovered leg
3. Oil application with Euffleurage from foot to thigh
4. Sliding on the back of the foot with the hand
5. Rubs on the back of the foot with the hand
 6. Sliding on the back with one hand and with the fist on the sole of the foot
7. Landslides in the plantar region of the foot with the thumbs (hugging it with both
hands)
8. Rubbing of malleolus
9. Euffleurage from foot to leg
10. Landslides on the inner and extreme side of the leg (reinforcing pressure on the
outer side of the leg)
11. Euffleurage from foot to thigh
12. Concentric slides around the label with thumbs
13. Landslides in the front, middle and outer thighs
14. Rubbing with thumbs and knuckles following three lines on the front of the thigh
15. Thigh kneading
16. Euffleurage from ankle to thigh
17. Percussion
18. Neurocutaneous manipulations
REPEAT HANDLING ON THE LEFT LEG

RIGHT ARM
1. Pressures throughout the arm on the sheet
2. Oil application with Euffleurage
3. Landslides on the back of the hand
4. Landslides in the forearm
5. Kneading in the forearm
6. Landslides in the forearm
7. Rubbing with knuckles
8. Sliding from wrist to shoulder
9. Kneading arm
10. Arm is opened, slip is made until reaching shoulder, slip is made with pressure
on shoulder, arm is closed
11. Digitopresion
12. Neurocutaneous manipulations (Emptying)
13. Repeat manipulations on the other arm

CHEST AND NECK

1. Pressing chest to shoulder when reaching shoulders we hold pressures a few
seconds.
2. We discovered chest, oil application with sliding from the sternum to the neck.
3. Chest to shoulder, trapezius, neck and occipital slip.
4. The face is rotated and the neck is worked from the occipital to the shoulder with
hand scrubbing.
5. Slide with thumb following muscle fibers.
6. Sliding by hand making pressures with the base of the skull.
7. Head pressure
8. We repeat from the opposite side
9. Chest to shoulder, trapezius, neck and occipital slip
10. Paravertebral pressures from C7 to C1
11. Pressures on the head (shampoo)