Everyone I mean Harvey massage therapist this is Jess
And today I'm going to be talking about how to work on a client who is fully clothed
This is something that might come up if you choose to go to an office setting and maybe you don't have a massage chair
Or maybe you just prefer to work on a table and so you bring your table and you
Just work on fully clued us workers that's a great way to doing it this might also come into play if you
You are getting a massage you tell someone to undress to their comfort level and this is their comfort level in a lot
This can also apply when you're working at a sporting event when you're working on foreclosed people
Those places you might be doing a more kinetic massage one with more stretching and stuff like that
And that's a little bit different from what I'm going to be going today if you'd like to see a routine that I do that involves
More stretching you can click down in the description
So when I'm working with a fully clothed client I do steal a lot from what I know about
Chair massage so I'm going to be
Not doing a lot of Gliding Over
Close
There is definitely a place for that and you can use the friction to create some heat in
And you can definitely
Introduced movement that way
But I like to take some of the lessons from
Turn the sausage and some of the lessons from my pastor released
And apply them
To this environment where you can't really go outside not the same way that you can
With bare skin
And I usually start kind of like this
Very gently and gradually walking my way down the back
And then a cup
This is kind of
Similar to how I
Start a standard
Massage
I move slowly I make my contact gradually
And I want to begin by telling the story of this entire back
So just like with chair massage
I'm sinking in
And allowing my hands to travel I'm displacing
The skin over the underlying tissue
This is creating some fascial traction that is actually a little bit harder to do
When I got oil on my hands
This is a good opportunity
To create that movement that mobilization of
The Superficial tissue over the underlying tissue
And of the
Bones of the spine
And notice that I'm moving slowly
Unlike a 15-minute
Chair massage 45-minute
Post-event sports massage
I want to bring in the
General field
Of a table massage
And to me that means
Slowly introducing myself
It mean working with the three-dimensionality of the body
And it means going at a measured pace
At a slower pace
I want to give just as much consideration during this massage as I would during a
Standard massage with oil
And next I'll do what I always do which is come over to one side
And I will switch up my tools I don't want to spend the entire time using the Palmer Services of
My hands like this
I'll switch over to my soft fist I will be sinking in a bit with the
Metacarpal phalangeal joints but I also want to spread some of that pressure to these proximal dorsal
Phalanges
So I've got
My fists sinking in just a bit I'm displacing tissue down toward her tailbone
I'm not allowing myself to
Just sink toward the table I still want to keep that myofascial angle
And I can go up and down the spine like that
His other hand is acting as the mother hand
It's applying broad comforting contact
And is taking some of my weight for me
Which I like
Allows me to easily stand up from these moves and it allows me to modulate the amount of pressure that I'm
Giving with this other tool
Something nice about glute massage is that you always have perfect traction you never have to
Worry about
How much oil you have applied
You always just
Stick right to that most superficial tissue
And so this is a great opportunity to
Take this superficial tissue and take it for a ride so I can take this
Spinal erector tissue
And draw gently outward
So right now I'm thinking this way I'm thinking out loud early
An easy way of
Insinuating that same gliding
Temptation that you would get from a standard massage
Is to just rock your own body weight from hand to hand
And gently walk your way
Do different parts of the body
Never feel like you need to
Pull your own
Body weight up using your back at a crane
If you're not able to give a lot of body weight to your client
You can't either get further over your client and deeper into your stands this will
Give less of your body weight to the client
Or you can have one hand in a place that can take more pressure while you're using the other hand work in a place that
Isn't able to take as much pressure
And you can always
You went and
To stabilize yourself on the table so here I'm able to sync as much pressure as I want into the table
Instead of getting it to my client so there a lot of options for
How you apply this pressure and while I'm talking about sinking with this hand into the table this is a
Great things to do while you are using
Your forearm and elbow which is another great option
For working with occluded client or
Any other client
Anything that I've talked about so far
You can easily do
With your proximal
Forearm
And of course you can always
Use petrissage here
Just realize that because you're not gliding you are probably drawing up more tissue then you normal
We would if you had oil on your hands so just be aware of that and that's also another
Benefit to working with a quote client
Or a drape client is another is a good way of simulating this just every time that I draw up this
Trapezius tissue I'm drawing up an awful lot of it it's not slipping through my grasp
So I'm not able to do that
Gliding sensation at the same time but
This is a great way of
Grabbing up a lot of fashion and a lot of muscle
And this is something that you can sit with
And wait for that
Muscle to soften
And there are plenty of good opportunities for using friction here and by the friction I mean moving the
Superficial tissue over the underlying tissue right now I'm working with infraspinatus
And I'm kind of doing a loop of the entire muscle
I'm following that inferior portion of the spine of the scapula outward
And then coming back
To that infraspinous fossa
And going back around
And because I can't really slide I've got a good opportunity to pin these tear
Larry's muscles
Against the lateral border of the scapula
When you're working with this quote client just remember some of the same
Principles that talked about in past videos
And that's two
Return frequently to these Broad
Integrating Strokes
To even though you can get very specific when you're doing this work because it's so easy
Easy to get into that
Depression just be careful about kind of cutting
Inclined up into little bits
Frequently go back to these
Broad
Applications of pressure
And the walking moves
That reintegrate
These are larger sections of the body
In fact this clothes massage can be nice because when we don't have to worry about the great you can do
Do more to integrate the entire body instead of just worrying about the upper body or just worried
Everybody you can
Work on both of the same time without having to be concerned about where the drape is
Is or treat moving is Heather excetera so you can work on the lower body as you work on the upper body
And just as an example of a few more things you can do
With certain areas of the body you might like to give them a nice lift so for working with this
Wig I can using a thumbless duck grip to look like this
Quack quack I can scoop up this cat tissue
And this is pretty easy on my joints I'm not having to use my thumb is for anything at all
If that doesn't feel quite right for you you can come to the side angle yourself toward the head
And use your palms to lift up this tissue
And you can
Bring some movement into it
This is a good opportunity to
Do moves that
Kris and jostling of the body
As you work
And you can continue that up into this upper leg as you are lifting this tissue like this
Again try not to use your back as a crane try to
Get low in your stance and anchor yourself into your side or into your leg right now
Now I'm kind of lounging on my own leg and now I can get over my client
And wind up
This posterior thigh tissue
And as I work with quote clients whether it's on a massage table or a massage chair I always try
Try to use the natural elasticity of their body to help me move
So right now I'm sinking my body weight into her posterior thigh and I'm
Bouncing back up
Turn not having to use my back to stand up from this
I'm just able to
Gently Rock
Without using pretty much any muscular effort
And just like with the back and with any other part of the body you can choose to sink in
And wait
I'm taking my body weight down and then displacing the tissue up
So I'm creating a bit of fashion fraction up toward this is guilty porosity
And I'm just waiting
I'm allowing this
Hamstring region to soften
I might feel it or I might not
Here case the static moves
Can feel quite nice and it's something that
It's easy to forget about
When you have when your hands
That sometimes you can just
Interact with the used
Insertion sites
And just hang out
A lot can be accomplished by
Sitting still
And the same thing working with this as I joined
You can it's easier to make this contact and allow it to be static
When there's some cloth in the way
And
Here I can sit here and wait
I can invite my client to take some easy deep breaths that
Changing the shape of the abdomen
Can change the relationship of the lumbar spine
And the sacrum
And I can make some changes
Just buy gently rocking this leg
Or I can make bigger changes by
Packing up his ankle and creating some motion
Now if you're working with feet and the client has their socks on just remember that you can see
I'm curling my fingers up word my own Palms
And I'm just kind of compressing the foot I'm just giving the foot a nice broad squeeze
And this is kind of the same Principle as with the back
You can kind of travel at the foot
With these big broad squeezes
Even if you can't Glide
That's just fine
Where the toes and give them some
Individual attention
You can scoop the calcaneus and give that a nice squeeze as your
Working with those individual toes are as you're working with other areas of the foot
You can sink into the ankle and give that some
How that deep friction
Disconnect we be a somewhat safer and gentler way of working with the top of the foot
Just gently mobilizing the skin on the top of the foot
This socket kind of Distributing my pressure a little bit
Pain is keeping me from
Pulling on that skin to specifically
And if you would like to spend more time with this foot you can always sink in with your finger
Tips think kind of a reflexology tight feeling
And explore the outer boundaries of this foot
Explore the arches
Explore the ball of the foot
I'm using broad pressure with
My palm and specific pressure with my fingertips
I have never figured out a good way of getting a picture of this so you'll have to imagine
And of course if your client has chosen to remove the shocks you can ask them if you can use some lotion here and work
Work with that normally
Now I haven't been doing a lot of gliding so far but that is definitely something that you can do so
If you zoom you can
And when your fingers out and use your palm to
Create some friction
Superficial friction
With these different areas of the thigh this feels awfully nice along the IT band and Whispers
Extra sensitivity there you can use the heel of your hand in this area lateral to the tibia
So that tibialis anterior and its friends
And once again because I don't have that Glide happening I can take some of
Does tissue and displace it when otherwise I might not be able to do that easily so I can sink into this tube
Anterior region
And
Kind of displays it outwards and downwards
I can feel awful nice and this can be a good place to work for
Runners and
Pretty much everyone
Temporary but Exposed Skin you can
With your client's permission use some
Oil
So I could
You just pretty much my regular routine with her
Farms in elbows and hands and neck
Some clients may be willing to undo a top button so that you can more easily access their neck
But
I say just work with what you got and if there is clock in the way just think about what advantages
Is that gives you as far as
Giving you that extra traction
Not having to deal with
The Great
I consider great time to work with the packs and move the arm as you do so
Cuz you don't have to worry about the drapes yet then
Are you let me know what you think let me know if there's anything that you do with clothes clients in the comments
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