Massage with non-mechanized devices

When using these tools, mechanical effects are applied to the skin, connective tissue, subcutaneous tissue, muscles and joints. Slow and mild use of them helps reduce the excitability of the nervous system( this kind of action allows you to relieve or reduce pain in traumas of the neuromuscular system), and fast and vigorous - to increase the tone of the central nervous system( which is used to relieve fatigue).Application in the field of reflexogenic zones( cervico-occipital, upper thoracic) and in Zakharyin-Ged zones has a reflex therapeutic effect on the pathologically altered activity of various tissues and internal organs.

Massage tools cleanse the skin of dead cells of the epidermis, dust and microbes, opening the channels of sweat and sebaceous glands and increasing their activity, blood circulation in the skin increases. As a result of all this, its nutrition is improved, it becomes softer and more elastic.

Massage tools accelerate the flow of lymph, but only if their movement along the body is performed during the course of large lymph vessels. Acceleration of the lymph current

helps to reduce edema, rapid removal of metabolic products.

Mechanical effects on tissue, displacement and stretching cause irritation of the receptors, i.e. nerve endings, which leads to increased blood circulation due to vasodilation and acceleration of blood flow in them. The temperature of the skin may increase by 1.5-3 ° C.Towards tissues delivered more oxygen, nutrients. Accelerated blood flow promotes rapid oxidation of under-oxidized metabolic products in tissues and their removal from the body, promotes resorption of hardens, pathological deposits and fluid accumulations in tissues, especially in the joint region, increased tissue mobility, stretching of scars, adhesions in skin fusion, etc. The action of instruments is widely used to improve the general tone of the body and its performance in physical fatigue.

Under the influence of mechanical action in the skin, physiologically active histamine-like substances are formed. Histamine causes the capillaries to expand and improves the permeability of the capillary wall not only in areas where the instruments are used, but also in the entire body. As a result, metabolic processes increase, which leads to the release of fat from fat stores and promotes the "burning" of excess amounts of fat in the body.

Of the various types of non-mechanized massage devices, the most widely used massage path( massager) and a mat for feet.