Segmental massage as a type of massage is a physical treatment. It consists of a series of tricks and studies, which strictly defined technique and sequence of implementation, taking into account the principles of dosage forms, allows the detection and removal of lesions, and often the causes of disease by reflex.

Unlike classic massage, segmental massage is particularly useful in the treatment of diseases of internal organs.

The creators of segmentamego massage are:

• branch manager and a masseur at the Institute Promieniolecznictwa O. Glaser
• and physician in chief of the Institute of X-ray and Promieniolecznictwa Assoc. MD Dalicho WA.

Based on several years of practical activities, based on the works of numerous scholars - Head, Mackenzie, Hansen, Ricker, Sperański, Comeiius, Hartmann, Kohlrausch, Lange, Leube, Dicke and others-involved in the functional interactions of organs and tissues of the body, developed and published segmental massage.

This method takes into account any possible changes to a reflex arising in various tissues and gives directions to remove them by applying specific, well-defined blows.

Due to exercise a significant influence on the functioning of the internal organs and the possibility of treatment and disposal of reflex changes in the organs and tissues, this method is in addition to classical massage, or, as some argue, is in addition to classical massage massage segmentamego.

Anatomical and physiological bases Massage segmentamego

In the very early developmental stage embryonic cells form follicle consists of two groups of cells: at its outer wall and internal concentrated in embryonic node. This node is attached to the bladder wall, which contains some fluid.

Embryonic node cells are arranged, with the development of the two layers called the embryonic leaves. They are: embryonic leaf inside, called the endoderm, and embryonic outer leaf, called the ectoderm.

In the next stage of development arises, inter alia, the third embryonic leaf, called the mesoderm, a derivative of external lobe. After the formation of mesoderm differentiation begins with the three leaves and the development of these tissues and organs.

• arises from the ectoderm of the nervous system and epithelium of the body surface,
• the endoderm develops epithelium lining the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory system and glands.

Mesoderm is initially form a single plate, which is further divided into medial and lateral streak. Medial band is divided by a shallow slit into sections (praczłony, segments, somites). They form two rows arranged along the midline of the embryo after its dorsal side.

Bandwidth side is connected to the medial intermediate mesoderm. The segments of the medial mesoderm arise: the axial skeleton (vertebrae), muscles of the torso and the right part of the skin.

), zawiązek mięśniowy ( miotom ) i zawiązek skórny ( dermatom ). Each segment is divided, so the bone primordium (sklerotom), muscle primordium (operators to carry) and the nucleus of skin (dermatome). The intermediate mesoderm develops urinary and sexual intercourse. With the lateral mesoderm, also known as visceral mesoderm, develop: smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, blood, vascular system and connective tissue.

Sectional construction of the muscular system is blurred as advancing the development processes. Muscle cells overwhelm the underlying connective tissue septum between miotomami, leaving most of the muscle contains, upon completion of development, several components of myotomes. Only in the thoracic spine remains ordinal system (intercostal muscles). Similarly, it behaves in the thoracic dermatomes segmentary system.

The nervous system develops from the ectoderm called neuroektodermą. Initially, the nucleus has the shape of the plate, which changes in the gutter, and as a result of the merging banks larval neural tube is formed, running along the trunk.

It is the creative material for the spinal cord and brain. Both of these creations are part of the central part of the somatic nervous system, which receives stimuli from the environment and to navigate, unerwiając components of the musculoskeletal system. In cewie nerve cell differentiation occurs.

Some of them are neuroblasts - the germ cells, nerve conductive stimuli. Wywędrowuje Part of the cells outside the nervous CeWe and arranged along it, acting in the primordia of the intervertebral ganglia, or spinal and sympathetic ganglia.

In the spinal cord cells to differentiate into motor and sensory. The contours of cells leave the spinal movement and form a spinal nerve roots of the front. Dorsal root ganglion cells have two tabs: one directed to the core and is part of the posterior spinal nerve root, the other goes to the circuit and connects to the root of the anterior spinal nerve. Spinal nerve divided into branches of the main front and rear.

The branches grow into the nearest front lying miotomy that are the primordium of the front torso muscles: chest, abdomen, neck and limbs. The branches grow into the rear miotomy, where the rest of the muscles of your spine primordium. Anterior spinal nerves communicate with each other to form strands. Only in the thoracic part of the fetal remains a segment of the system. G ałęzie rear strands do not form, so their back muscles are segmental innervation.

Just like any other operators to carry receives a nerve, so dermatomy derivatives segments have their own innervation by sensory fibers. Dermatomy not maintain strict boundaries between them, often overlapping, hence the lack of demarcation of the innervation of dermatomes.

Within the vegetative (vegetative, autonomic, trophic) part of the nervous system can distinguish sympathetic (sympathetic) and parasympathetic (parasympatyczną). Sympathetic nervous system is composed of 1922-1925 ganglia interconnected by nerve fibers forming the sympathetic trunk which runs on both sides of the spine from the base of the skull to the tailbone.

Divide it into part of the cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral. Number of turns is less than the number of dorsal root ganglion as a result of confluence of the eight coils in the neck with three more rolls and five in the lumbar region, and three more rolls sympathetic.

Both sympathetic trunks are connected in the lumbar and sacral lateral branches. The somatic system connects to the sympathetic trunk through the branches connecting the white and gray.

The branches connecting the white coming out of the corner side of the spinal cord at segments C8 and Th1 to Th12, run in the anterior spinal nerve roots, then come to the sympathetic ganglia, both at the same level, and located above and below. Therefore, each coil contains fibers from several spinal segments. Since the cervical nerve branches do not go connecting white, so that the coils are supplied by the cervical sympathetic fibers from the upper thoracic segments.

The branches connecting the gray coils combine sympathetic nerve trunk core, run with them on the circuit, and innervate the smooth muscles (also striated) and glands.

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