Cellulite Massage

Cellulite massage helps get rid of the bad fat. The outside epidermis covers the inner dermis which contains blood vessels, hair follicles, nerve receptors and connective tissue which forms the support and which contains collagen.

Below the connective tissue you find layers of subcutaneous fat and it is here where the problem starts.

In females this fat is stacked in vertical chambers which slightly protrude into the dermis and it is these uneven protrusions that cause the well known orange peel effect when the chambers become extended and less pliable.

Coupled to problems such as inefficient waste removal from the cells in this region, as well as less than perfect circulation, this would result in an accumulation of wastes, and enlargement of the adipocytes, which now, with nowhere else to go, will extend to, will press to the top, and will cause the much feared look of cellulite.

With the passage of time, our bodies become less efficient in dealing with the removal of waste products and circulation may also decrease - both factors will contribute to the development of cellulite.

You do not need to be overweight to have cellulite - as it is not as such a weight problem, but a combined dilemma of increased adipocyte cells, waste accumulation and inadequate circulation.

Should you be overweight the cellulite will be more visible, but even when you have a very slim body, you may still have cellulite.

Cellulite massage can help both personality types

There are two types of cellulite - hard and soft cellulite.

When pinching or compressing the skin tissue between thumb and forefinger and you get the characteristic dimpling effect, it is referred to as soft cellulite or status protrusus cutis. This type of cellulite is also normally sensitive.

After progressing through this stage, you can find hard cellulite or dermo-panniculosis deformans, which needs not to be compressed to show, and is always visible. At this stage the tissues may be flabby but is in most cases no longer sensitive.

Doing proper and good cellulite massage is a technique. And there are several ways and methods that are followed for doing the massage. Different movements that are followed for massage are explained below -

Draining Movements

The two important draining movements, 'Stroking' and 'Smoothing' are usually considered as the essential introductions as well as the completion activities to each massage session.

Both of these movements, 'Stroking' and 'smoothing', have a sedative and anesthetic effect on the body.

But at the same time they also prepare the way for the evacuation of serous liquid, which is released by kneading. They effectively clear the 'drains' and prepare them to receive the lymphatic flow that is set in motion by the unblocking. This is why they are called the 'draining movements'.

Stroking

Stroking must be done lightly and slowly and that too without talc.

It should be done with the tips of the fingers.

Stoking acts as a sedative.

When someone else does it, it induces a blissful drowsiness. If the massage is sharp and quick it increases the cellular spasms and causes an undesirable retraction of the flesh.

Smoothing

It is done with the palm of the hand.

It goes deeper than the stroking.

It should always come after the stroking.

In smoothing the hands try to mould the muscle contours and to smooth over them without grasping them.

The cellulite massage technique is similar to lymphatic drainage

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