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Massage and the Original Swedish Movements

  
[title page]
  
PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION
  
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
  
[contents]
  
MASSAGE AND THE SWEDISH MOVEMENTS INTRODUCTION

  
EXERCISE IN THERAPEUTICS
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MASSAGE
 1. 
1. EFFLEURAGE (STROKING)
 2. 
2. FRICTIONS (FRICTION)
 3. 
3. PÉTRISSAGE (KNEADING)
 4. 
4. TAPOTEMENT (PERCUSSION)
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MASSAGE AS A THERAPEUTIC AGENT is divided into Introductory, General and Local.
  
INTRODUCTORY MASSAGE
  
GENERAL MASSAGE
  
LOCAL MASSAGE
  
PRESSING AND SHAKING (VIBRATIONS)
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DETAILS OF TREATMENT
  
MASSAGE MUST ALWAYS BE APPLIED ON THE NUDE SKIN
  
CONTRAINDICATIONS FOR MASSAGE
  
SWEDISH MOVEMENTS
  
POSITIONS
  
DIVISION OF MOVEMENTS
  
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE MOVEMENT TREATMENT
  
MECHANICAL ACTION OF MUSCLES
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APPLICATION OF MASSAGE AND THE SWEDISH MOVEMENTS TO VARIOUS DISEASES OF THE BODY
  
GENERAL WEAKNESS
  
ANEMIA
  
HYSTERIA
  
CHOREA
  
PLETHORA
  
INSOMNIA
  
HEADACHES
  
APOPLEXY
  
INFANTILE PARALYSIS
  
TABES
  
NEURALGIA
  
NEURITIS
  
PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHY
  
WRITERS' CRAMP
  
SPLANCHNIC NEURASTHENIA
  
AFFECTIONS OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS
  
CATARRH OF THE LUNGS
  
PHARYNGITIS AND LARYNGITIS
  
CONSUMPTION
  
BRONCHITIS, NERVOUS ASTHMA, ETC.,
  
COLDS
  
DISEASES OF THE HEART
  
DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS
  
DYSPEPSIA
  
HABITUAL CONSTIPATION
  
HEMORRHOIDS
  
OBESITY
  
ENLARGEMENT OF THE LIVER
  
DIABETES
  
UTERINE AFFECTIONS
  
AMENORRHEA
  
DYSMENORRHEA
  
AFFECTIONS OF THE BLADDER
  
RHEUMATISM
  
LUMBAGO
  
STIFF NECK
  
GOUT
  
LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE
  
SPRAINS
  
DISLOCATIONS
  
SYNOVITIS
  
VARICOSE VEINS
  
HERNIA
  
FRACTURES
  
DEFORMITIES OF THE FEET
  
AFFECTIONS OF THE EYE
  
AFFECTIONS OF THE EAR
  
GENERAL REMARKS
  
THE MASSAGE TREATMENT IN AMERICA

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY
  
INDEX
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DYSPEPSIA

  • 1. Massage of the stomach and the abdomen (fifteen minutes).
  • 2. Percussion of the back.
  • 3. High St. pulling of legs.
  • 4. S. turning of body.
  • 5. Flexion and extension of legs.
  • 6. S. rotation of arms.
  • The movements are repeated.
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