Chest massage for adults
Chest massage for adults helps not only to relax, but also to treat certain diseases. But is it worth doing it at home, what are the benefits and harms of breast massage for the human body?

Breast massage focuses primarily on the deep and superficial muscles located in the chest area. In addition, massage affects the organs located in the chest, including the bronchi and lungs (the so-called vibration, drainage massage).

Muscles located in and around the chest include pectoralis minor, pectoralis major, and serratus anterior. Breast massage includes a number of techniques, all of which are used to reduce muscle tension and pain. Breast massage helps to relax the body and improve blood circulation, improve respiratory function, stimulate expectoration, sputum discharge and blood oxygenation. Massage therapists also use breast massage to relieve muscle tension, stress, and pain.

Benefits of chest massage for adults

Chest massage can help in many cases. This may be the postoperative period, for the prevention of scars and deformities, a period of high loads and stress, muscle tension, pain, recovery from bronchitis or pneumonia.

Benefits of breast massage:

  • voltage reduction;
  • pain reduction;
  • acceleration of recovery from respiratory diseases;
  • improvement of blood circulation.

Stress can be the result of overuse or injury. In it, the muscles involved remain contracted and do not relax, which leads to pain. Breast massage aims to reduce muscle tension by increasing flexibility. During a chest massage, the muscles are stretched and contracted to loosen any restrictions. The stretching and contracting actions of the muscles increase the temperature of the muscles, which helps to relax them.

Harm of chest massage for adults

Therapeutic massage is not used in special situations, because it can harm a person. So, it can increase acute inflammation, the severity of the injury in the presence of a broken bone over an unconsolidated fracture (in the ribs), or in a recent operation, skin inflammation, thrombosis, or an open wound that hurts.

Contraindications for chest massage for adults

There are a number of conditions, both local and general, in the presence of which chest massage is not performed for adults. These include:

  • local skin irritation;
  • undiagnosed bump or tumor formation;
  • malignant neoplasms, areas of active cancer;
  • skin infection;
  • recent burn in the chest area;
  • phlebitis (inflammation of the veins);
  • phlebothrombosis;
  • arteritis (a condition in which inflammation of the arteries occurs);
  • infection;
  • anaphylaxis (a life-threatening allergic reaction to massage products);
  • appendicitis;
  • cardiovascular disorder (stroke or heart attack in the acute phase);
  • insulin shock or diabetic coma;
  • epileptic seizure (convulsions);
  • pneumothorax (air or gas in the chest cavity around the lung);
  • atelectasis (collapse of the lung, not containing air);
  • severe asthmatic attack;
  • acute pneumonia;
  • kidney failure, respiratory failure or liver failure (modified treatment is possible with the consent of the doctor);
  • diabetic complications such as gangrene, advanced heart or kidney disease, or very unstable high blood pressure.

How to do a chest massage for adults at home

A variety of techniques are used during breast massage. These include:

  • friction;
  • mixing
  • impact on trigger points;
  • skin rolling;
  • tapping with the adoption of a special position of the body (drainage massage, vibration massage).

Friction. It is performed with the thumbs or fingertips. Friction is the irritation of tissues along the muscle fibers, on which pressure is applied to help soften the collagen fibers. Collagen fibers can become coarse and “hard”, leading to pain. When friction is used, short circular motions increase the temperature of the fibers, which allows them to relax and stretch, which increases flexibility and reduces restrictions.

Discrepancy. A technique used during breast massage where soft tissue is stretched and compressed. Kneading is aimed at reducing muscle spasm, improving blood flow and lymph flow. This helps increase the amount of nutrients and oxygen in the muscles and speed up the elimination of metabolic products.

Impact on trigger points. It is performed with the fingers of the hand or thumbs, while pressure is applied to the points. Trigger points are located in the center of the muscle fiber. It aims to soften and break down muscle knots that can cause muscle spasms, restriction, and pain. After short-term ischemia with pressure, then the muscles feed more actively.

Skin rolling. It helps relieve tension in muscles and fascia. During breast massage, there is an increase in blood flow, an increase in muscle temperature, which relaxes the fibers and allows them to stretch. This eliminates the pain.

If you understand the importance of massaging your breasts and the muscles surrounding your chest, you will reap a number of health benefits. It helps to relax and, most importantly, helps your partner breathe easily. However, this massage should only be performed by a partner, and self-massage is neither possible nor recommended.

In addition to strengthening the chest muscles, chest massage also plays a big role in improving the overall circulation in the chest area. It also plays a big role in toning the nervous system throughout the chest, lungs and heart. Those who suffer from organic or congenital heart problems, lung diseases and palpitations can certainly benefit greatly from this massage.

Breast Massage Tips

If you want to increase the size of your breasts (mammary glands) and improve their shape, then this is really a very good massage technique.

You should use both palms and push the muscles as well as the chest towards the stomach.

When it comes to breast massage, you should do it in circular motions and repeat them several times from right to left and from left to right.

You can use your palms and fingers to make them look like a beak and tap on the areas near the lungs.

You can also use oil massage on the chest area. This type of massage has three main benefits, which are listed below:

  • helps to warm the chest;
  • increases blood flow to this area;
  • Helps distribute the massage oil.

You must learn how to use your fingertips effectively while working the upper ribs. You must start from the center and move towards the left and right. Repeat the process 2-3 times. Moving up, you must learn to turn your hands. Your fingers should slide smoothly down into your armpits. You should move slowly towards the waist. You should turn your hands again and start the process again.

Although there is no doubt that breast massage is really very useful, it should be done by specialists. But if you don’t want someone else to touch your chest, then you need to make sure that your partner is well trained in massage techniques for this area.

Popular questions and answers

Answered questions about breast massage professional massage therapist with 14 years of experience Alexander Kholmogorov.

For what problems can adult chest massage be done?
Chest massage is useful for various chronic diseases of the respiratory system. For example, after pneumonia, if it suddenly becomes chronic, in the treatment of bronchial asthma, that is, problems with the lungs. Because any impact on the chest, as a rule, is rubbing the intercostal spaces, above the collarbone, under the collarbone, behind one shoulder blade, vibration, tapping – stimulate the cough reflex.
How effective is chest massage for adults?
Often, on my massage table, after exposure to the chest, many patients began to cough, quite strongly, clearing the bronchi. The effect is precisely due to this reflex. As a rule, there should not be any kneading action, there is not so much subcutaneous fat and muscle.

At home, you can also do massage, it is not difficult. Fingers should be placed on the intercostal spaces and driven back and forth until the tissues redden. Clapping your hands is also helpful. This is done in combination with drugs, and very often it is after the massage that you can ask a person to hang the upper body off the sofa in order to improve sputum discharge.

When should you not do a chest massage?
Indications and contraindications are almost the same as for general massage plus urolithiasis – if there are kidney stones, vibration and tapping can cause the stone to move. You have to be very careful with this.
How often should chest massage be done?
In general, massage is done in the same course, 10 sessions, you can do it every day and ideally combine it with local irritants.

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