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Summary: Ask child if they are ready before beginning massage to treat sinus congestion. Begin massaging a child to relieve allergy symptoms with the techniques in this free video on alternative medicine from a massage expert.
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About the Expert
Tina Allen Tina Allen is a parenting and childcare expert with years of experience teaching people how to care for babies and children. read more
So we have this all ready and now Riley can have a massage. Would you like to have a massage today if I massage your head and your face? It's o'kay, o'kay. So what I'm going to have you do is lay down in front of me. I want you to lay on your back and put your head on this pillow. So let's just make sure you're comfortable, make sure you are nice and comfortable. Just lay down. How's that feel? Do you feel o'kay? Are you warm enough? And you feel nice and comfortable on the blanket and the pillow? O'kay. We are going to just check and he is now laying here in front of us which is good. I make sure we have access to reach his head and his face and being sure that his back, his upper back, his shoulders, his neck make sure those things are relaxing and resting on his pillow so we get the angle that we need to do the massage. We want to make sure that his sinuses are able to drain since part of our massage for sinus congestion is helping those things to drain. Helping the sinuses to drain, so making sure that he has his head elevated is a very good idea. So my knees are bent behind the pillow just creating that angle for him to be comfortable and having him in the proper position for the massage. I'm just going to check again and make sure you are comfortable. Yes, if any time during the massage you become uncomfortable or cold or anything just let me know and we'll make sure that you feel comfortable, o'kay? O'kay, great.