The fact that massage for the person is excellent medical and prophylactic, is familiar to everyone. And whether you know that to animals the massage is not less useful, than to us?
Our pets often have a stress, it can be shown in hyperactivity, uneasy behavior, causeless bark or miaow, aggression or, on the contrary, in excessive slackness. Besides, animals can have constants, pain, imperceptible for us, connected with the chronic diseases inherent in certain breeds. So, hereditary feature of dogs of large breeds - a dysplasia of femoral joints, it is difficult for them to walk upstairs. A scourge of small - the back pains connected with deformation of vertebral disks. It is difficult for many animal to come downstairs, the reason - morbidity in a neck.
You can facilitate considerably their state, carrying out at first daily, then two times a week sessions of medical massage to your favourites. Massage for animals is extremely widespread now, but veterinary service is expensive and it is too expensive for much. I assure you, you will quite cope with this useful to an animal and pleasant for you (yes, it is actually pleasant!) occupation independently.
Choose the place for performing massage. It has to be convenient both for an animal, and for you. You should not bend, squat low, far extend intense hands. Place an animal, having enclosed a rug on a table, an ironing board or on a lap (cats, small dogs, birds, rats). If it is indoors cold, use a laying with electroheating, so it will be easier for animal to relax. Your hands have to be clean and warm. It is impossible to mass places of fresh stings, cuts, scratches. Very gently, finger-tips mass recently postponed fractures, stretching, ruptures of muscles and ligaments, ruptures of disks. It is impossible to do massage at the increased temperature, shock, very serious condition or heatstroke. If, massing an animal, you paid attention to some places with hypersensibility or to consolidations, swellings, surely, without hesitating, address the veterinarian! Keep in mind, one of great advantages in performing massage by an animal is an early diagnosis of difficult diseases. You simply would miss their development, without having gone for close contact with the pet's skin. So, use the following methods of massage.1 for your little friends. Shake by hands, rub them the friend about the friend to strengthen blood circulation and to warm them. 2. Begin to stroke tenderly both palms (always strictly on wool) your animal, tenderly, quietly and soothingly talking to him. 3. Poorly pressing finger-tips, carry out small circular motions along muscles on both sides of a backbone, at first clockwise, then against hour. Gradually strengthen pressing as far as the animal will allow. Fingers during performance of this movement should not come off his skin. Repeat three-four time.4. Press in turn thumbs each akupressurny point along a backbone, beginning on a nape and finishing on a sacrum. Press each point within two-three seconds. 5. Finger-tips make light massage circular motions at a skull base. In process of relaxation of an animal move to a pered, following arrangement of muscles. Continue massage on front side of a neck, avoiding to press on a trachea, moving to the bases of ears. Under ears mass very carefully - lymphatic glands are located there. The swelling in this area can be sign of the desease! 6. If the animal has specific problems (the joints, old changes having an effect, chronic dislocations), pay attention to massage in this area. Carry out strokings, skin razminaniye, then strengthen pressing, kneading already muscle tissue under skin.7. Accompany massage with tender words. On time it should not exceed 15 minutes. Finish massage always with stroking of a body, head, extremities. In 1-3 months you will notice striking change in behavior of your pets. Dogs, hardly and reluctantly entering on a ladder, will quickly run on it. At animals the apathy, slackness will decrease or, on the contrary, the hyperactivity much more will decrease. Since massage will kill pains which you did not guess, will stop causeless (in your understanding) bark and meowing, the dream and appetite will improve. Besides, the positive effect from an obshcheniiya with an animal is gained also by you! When holding a session of massage to your dog or a cat your own pressure is normalized! You calm down, the mood considerably improves. It was checked by scientists. Doing massage to an animal, you make sure of healing nature of impact of human hands on any organism therefore after animals you begin (and it is successful!) to help relatives and acquaintances and to cure their illnesses.