Swedish Massage

Are you looking for a massage to relax and energise you? The typical Swedish massage involves a soft gentle approach, with long strokes, kneading and circular movements on the outer layers of both muscles and joints. One of the key benefits of this therapy is that it can relieve muscle tension and furthermore, aid in the post-injury phase.

There are four types of strokes associated with Swedish massage; Effleurage, Friction, Petrissage and Tapotement. An Effleurage movement is normally repeated many times over the same area on the body. This induces relaxation, stimulating the nerves and blood supply to the tissues worked. Frictions are a small variety of techniques where there is the use of the fingers or thumbs.

They are precise movements focused on a very small section of the body. Petrissage movements include kneading, wrinkling, lifting and rolling. It’s where soft tissues are compressed against each other or against the bones. Tapotement movements may be applied to the fleshy parts of the body. This movement requires rapid movements from the wrists in which, the body is hit softly by each hand one by one.