21/11/18  Marjon clinic  No. of hours 17

First client is a 18 year old female who goes to the gym 4 times a week.
Second is a 18 year old male who plays water polo and regularly swims.

Before the massage starting the client explained that they did leg day at the gym the day before and said that their hamstrings were sore. Because of this they asked to have the hamstrings massaged, this started off by making sure the towelling techniques were correct. The towel was tucked into the bottoms of their shorts, so they had privacy and no lotion got onto them. The massage consisted of effleurage techniques and petrissage. There was a knot in both hamstrings and neuromuscular techniques were applied to help release the knots. The client was told that the pain scale was 0 to 10, 0 being no pain at all and 10 being unbearable pain. As the technique was applied the client said that the pain was around a 4 so more pressure was applied until it was at a 6. It was then held for 30 seconds until the pain subsided.

The second client was saying that they had upper back tightness. To help with this effleurage was given to the upper fibres of the traps, this was to help blood flow. After was the petrissage techniques to help with getting into the deeper muscle fibres. Neuromuscular techniques were used to help get release the tension within the traps.

Remember to keep talking to client throughout the massage and to gain as much information from the client before the massage starts. This would help to understand what the client wants, and needs are. Remember to do stretching at the end of a massage to help ease tension within the muscles.