Hardware types of massage

Slavic tribes and karelofinns enjoyed bathing in the baths and trimming techniques all over the body, along with patting and quilting of the body with birch and oak brooms.

In the XVI century.in Japan, historiatum was used - an arcuate curved piece of wood 10-12 cm long with rotating coils at the ends and special sticks with hair pouches at the end. The latter, apparently, were borrowed from the traditional medicine of Ancient China, when bundles of 8-10 short needles attached to a long handle were used for superficial cutaneous action on acupuncture points( mei-hua-chen method).

In the XVIII century.clinician Tissot in his major work, "Medical gymnastics in surgery," wrote: "If every morning, lying in bed on his back and lifting his knees slightly bent at the knees, rubbing his stomach and stomach with a piece of flannel, this increases the peristaltic movements in all the intestines of the abdominal cavity".This experience is not forgotten, and now in many countries special mittens are produced for massage and body washing in the bath. Another Frenchman J. Vigoroux used a tuning for the treatment of motor coordination disorders.

In the future, massage instruments and devices are constantly complicated and improved. Taking into account all the advantages of a hardware massage, it should be pointed out that any device can not replace consciously controlled human hands, which determine the condition of tissues and perceive their finest responses. Adapting to the anatomical and physiological features of the tissues and taking into account the pathological changes, the masseuse can strengthen or weaken the action of the massage at any given moment, replace one massage method with another, depending on their physiological effect on the body. With manual massage, the masseur constantly studies the massaged area with the help of touch and vision, which is necessary for comparing her condition before and after the massage, and after several massage sessions. No massage therapist is able to repeat a massage session, similar in character to the previous one, therefore, there is no indication in the literature of adaptation, addiction to manual massage. At the same time, the organism can adapt to the hardware types of massage, if not to change the dosage, not to combine with other means.

The device really can not yet completely replace the hand of the masseur, but this view can not be considered absolute considering the creation of robots of the fifth generation. The father of modern massage IV Zabludovsky at the end of the XIX century.wrote: "Is it possible to take advantage of the latest improvements in mechanics for the construction of such machines that would replace the actions of hands, or will not even the action of machines be preferable to the action of hands? It would be worthwhile only to invent such a machine, the power of which could be determined at any given moment in figures, and thus, instead of the indefinite work of the massager, depending on the subjective muscular feeling, to deal with work expressed in figures;in other words, instead of taking the amount of the curative to take on the eye - weigh it on a precise scale. "

At present, our industry produces a variety of massage devices that differ in function, the degree of mechanization of the massage process, the kind of energy consumed, the actuators, the type of action on the massage area and the operational and technical data.