Petrissage Research Paper

Petrissage is a form of kneading that is carried out taking hold of the muscle between the thumb and the fingers, the lifting should be of a single muscles.
The muscle should be lifted and stretched away from the bone when this has been done the area is kneaded within the hand and this will stimulate tissues, blood vessels, nerves, lymph vessels and glands. This action of compression and relaxation will release the lymph’s out of the spaces that are being worked on into the lymphatics.
In some treatments the muscle may be too large to get in between your fingers and thumb so the system of wringing is carried out where you grip as much of the muscle as possible.
The kneading action pushes the toxic matter and degenerative cells into the blood