Definition: A manipulation in which your hands slide over the skin without making folds in the skin.

Primary Applications: Relaxation, Application of lotion, transitioning, Sedative.

Wringing

Definition: A manipulation in which your hands squeeze soft tissue, moving slowly from the distal to proximal ends of a segment.

Primary Applications: Move fluids, Broaden and lengthen soft tissues, Stimulative.

Petrissage

Definition: Manipulations in which your hands pull, press, move, and compress muscles and soft tissues without sliding on the skin.

Primary Applications: Assists in moving blood and lymph from deeper tissues, Improves elasticity and muscle tone, reduces soft tissue lesions, and is stimulative.

Friction

Definition: Multi directional, sliding hand manipulations that mobilize, stretch, and fold soft tissues.

Primary Applications: Increase local body temperature, breaks up adhesion's and broadens or lengthens tissues, and is sedative.

Vibration

Definition: A manipulation in which your hands perform find or coarse rhythmic movements of a body part or segment.

Primary Applications: Decreses muscle tension, Most eddective for deep structures such as internal organs or bone, and is sedative.

Percussion

Definition: A manipulation in which your hands perform repeated strikes or taps of varying force to a body part or segment.

Primary Applications: Increase tone of soft tissues, can stimulate or sedate the central nervous system, and is stimulative.

Passive Movements

Definition: Movement of a joint without participation or effort on the part of the recipient. the movement is done without the use of willpower and with the use of an outside force.

Primary Applications: Increase range of motion and flexibility, and is Neutral.