hello massage nurse i want to show you how to treat the arm the forearm and the hand when
your client is in the prone position she's been having some pain right here at the golfer's elbow
and i also want to show you the hand because a lot of people don't treat that so remember that um
you can do that the carpals are right here and the metacarpals there's five metacarpals
and you can spread the carpals right here and then go one at a time from the thumb
index middle finger and the pinky and while you're here don't forget to massage right here
the policies muscle this is very important muscle i can tell she's got a little bit of tightness
right there you can hold that trigger point too if you need to but make sure you work the
pollicis abductor this is the one that helps with opposition opposition is what differentiates us
from monkeys that we're able to touch our opposing finger and there are only two phalanges in the
thumb and three in each of the fingers so there's 14 phalanges on each hand and there's 108 bones in
your hands and feet so that's i mean 106 i'm sorry so that's half of the almost half of the bones
another thing you can do is circular motion on the palm of the hand just to warm up the
tissues there you can do cross cross friction or cross fiber right here
and you can also go to the wrist start relaxing some of the muscles here remember the median
nerve goes through the carpal tunnel right here so you want to do some spreading here
with the palms also and also you can uh treat the golfer's elbow which would be on the medial part
of the forearm you can hold it this is the perfect place the perfect way to have their
arm placed so that you can really work it make sure you treat the tendon attachments there
you can lift and separate the fibers it's like a grasp and then you lift and separate the fibers
and just treat the rest of the forearm
you can do with a soft fist remember you're always going centripetal towards the heart
because there are little small valves in the veins that return the blood to the heart
so you always want to go centripetal which that means towards the heart and you can
also do some cross fiber friction on the flexors these are the flexors
i'm gonna stand up now i was sitting down just
to so that you guys could see me but let me go to this side
and now you can also treat the hand here from this side you know you can spread the palm again
you can massage each of the fingers
you can do with the knuckles just do some circular motions
and you can also do some spreading like a fan spreading the from the carpels
out laterally and then here again from the medial part laterally spreading the carpals especially
if they're having some wrist issues or radiance or numbness from the median nerve being pressed
and you can also do the cross friction from this side by the side the on this side of the
face cradle and again you can go back to the elbow oh and i hear it clicking
you can do some skin rolling this way too so i just wanted to give you a quick a quick tip on how
to treat the forearm and the hand from the prone position until the next time create a great day