Pressure point massage
Pressure point massage is the influence on the points of acupuncture with fingers. The simplicity of the pressure point massage doing and its efficiency is favourable for the wide spread of this method.
The essence of the pressure point massage is the mechanical stimulation of the small areas of the skin surface that were named biologically active points because they have a great number of nerve endings.
Nowadays there are about 700 active points described by scientists and specialists. And about 140-150 of them are used in the every-day practice in the massage cabinet.
To find active points the anatomic and topographic qualities are used. But such indicators are not always able to show active points. That is why there is the technique that helps to find these points.
Before turning to this technique it is necessary to study the location of all points attentively and to study to regulate the power of their stimulation in dependence on the place of their location.
The base of such massage is the mechanical influence by fingers on the biologically active points that have the reflector connection with different inner organs and functioning systems. The feeling of ache, spreading and numbness are the signals that you found the points correctly. Very often a patient feels pain. The disease of the certain organs can be discovered by such points.