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3. The Good Night lemniscate

Remaining on the left side of the patient, the upper part of the back is covered again and the buttocks are uncovered roughly up to the coccyx.

My left hand rests lightly on the patient’s left shoulder during the entire treatment. Positioning my right hand underneath the sacroiliac joint (Articulatio sacroiliaca), I perform a small lemniscate that runs transversely across the back.

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My fingers always point to the right side of the patient. I start at the lemniscate’s center-point and follow the loop first to the right, then to the left.

Each loop begins with an emphasis of the lower arc. When immersed in the tissue, my hand – beginning with the tips of the fingers, then through the middle of the hand to the heel of the hand– nestles itself completely to the body’s shape.

My hand disengages from its emphasis at the outside right and glides quietly in the reverse order (heel of the hand– middle of the hand – fingertips) through the upper loop back to the intersection point. There it dips back into the tissue at the beginning of the left loop.

The emphasis is again released on the outside left. With the fingertips again leading – as in the beginning – the lemniscate is finally completed with the upper loop.

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My hand always remains in loose and warm contact with the skin. In its dynamic, the movement breathes between emphasis (below) and release (above).

After performing this several times, I finish the Einreibung after a right loop with a downstroke from the mid-point.

During this downstroke, too, my fingers point to the right side of the patient.

EFFECT

Relaxing; soothing; stimulating sleep. The warming of the gluteal muscles stimulates the flow of warmth into the feet.

INDICATIONS

Sleep disturbance due to cold feet; decubitus prophylaxis.

NOTE

The wrong emphasis (upwards) would stimulate kidney activity, i.e. excretion, too strongly!