The massage is the human being's instinctive practice, when pain, the first impulse, takes place it is to rub the affected area. Also, when another person suffers the pain, for example a boy, the human being, usually modifies the intonation and the inflection of the voice, to get the person that suffers it, to be tranquilized.

The animals, also use the massage, although in their case, they generally make it, being licked the affected area.

It is known by experience that the pressure of the hand above an aching area, calms the pain and it relaxes. By means of this experience, of generation in generation and of culture in culture, they left summing up different massage techniques, until the one that in our days, it is known as chiromassage.

The chiromassage, is a group of movements made with the hands in contact of the patient's body, these movements that are of several types: kneadings, percussions, frictions, veined castings, claps, pinches, pumping, vertebral shakes, touch, rotations, muscular stretching, mobilizations, etc.

The intensity with which these movements are applied, they determine the massage type that will be made:

• Soft movements: Relaxation or sensitive chiromassage

• Intense movements: Sportive Chiromassage, adapted for muscular contractures and small muscular problems.

• Intense movements and intense mobilizations, sometimes with the help of apparatuses and diverse instruments (infrareds, vibrations, tens, application of cold, etc.): Chiromassage of recovery muscle's tone and elasticity.

Anyway the massage types and their use are defined in the pages of technical and uses.

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