Baby massage mainly involves stimulating acupoints through manual techniques to adjust the functions of the internal organs. Commonly used clinical baby massage techniques include pushing, holding, pressing, rubbing, kneading, and pinching. The details are as follows:
1. Pushing method: It mainly uses fingers to push on the baby's limbs or chest and back. It has the effect of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, relaxing muscles and unblocking meridians, and is suitable for abdominal pain, bloating and other symptoms.
2. How to hold: Mainly to treat the baby's limbs or shoulders and neck. It is necessary to use the thumb and index finger to massage symmetrically with each other.
3. Pressing method: Mainly apply vertical downward pressure from light to heavy to stimulate local tissues, thereby achieving the effects of warming the meridians, dispersing cold, relieving spasms and analgesic, and is suitable for local pain, Symptoms such as inability to urinate or inability to urinate.
4. Rubbing method: Mainly use the palms or fingertips to rub the area regularly to produce benign stimulation, achieve the effect of soothing the liver, regulating qi, digesting and guiding stagnation, and is suitable for babies with indigestion.
5. Kneading method: Mainly use the fingertips, palm heel or hypothenar to make local rotation movements, while driving the subcutaneous tissue to continuously generate pressure to achieve the corresponding curative effect. Generally, the baby's abdomen is massaged to enhance gastrointestinal function.
6. Kneading method: Mainly targeting the baby's spine or bladder meridian on the back, lifting the skin and kneading it, which will help improve the baby's physical fitness.
It is recommended that the above massage techniques be performed under the supervision of a professional doctor to avoid adverse effects on the baby's health.