Squeezing and kneading

For this technique, use the thumbs, the index finger, and the middle finger 

To massage the areas between bones and at joints, use the tips of the thumbs and the middle fingers. Only the tips of the fingers touch the patient's skin. Gradually increase pressure as you make circular motions with your fingertips. Start at the outer parts of the body and work inward in a spiral. To massage the joints, the wrists, backs of the ankles, and the abdomen, make circular motions with the thumbs and middle fingers. This is a forceful technique that breaks up and contributes to the assimilation of pathological accumulations in the joints. It brings relief to rheumatic joints - which can be treated only after fever, swelling, and pain have ceased-since it relieves stiffness and makes the joints easier to move. It is effective in cases of people who are semi paralyzed as a result of apoplexy and whose joints do not function. It can bring relief to the stiffness, pain, and creaking that sometimes develop in joints of people in their forties and fifties.

These then are the basic massage techniques. They must be used according to the symptoms of the patient and the part of the body affected. After massage, always lightly rub or tap the treated area and have the patient move the joints. This will make him feel much lighter and more supple. The effect of the massage will be increased if the patient lightly and slowly turns his head to right and left and front and back, stretches his arms and legs, raises and lowers his shoulders, and bends his body backward and forward. These actions will further relax muscles from which massage has already reduced tension