Massaging Cheeks of Child to Treat Sinus Congestion

Video Transcript

Okay, our hands are right here in the middle of the forehead, we're going to go ahead, scoop down over to the nose, we want to get to the cheeks now. So, we're scooping down and we're massaging the cheeks in circles. Doing our best to target masseter muscle. Now the masseter muscle, you'll feel, "I'm going to turn your head, just a tiny bit sweetheart so they can see", your jaw where it connects, there's a large muscle that we use for chewing and lots of other things, for talking and everything else. So we want to go ahead and target that with our circles. Targeting the masseter, doing big great circles on the cheeks, nice and relaxing, great big circles. These circles are also similar to the circles that we did on the temples. So we're doing this great big circles, great big circles. You can use your whole fingers, just get a lots of warm and skin to skin contact, great big circles on the cheeks. And you can circle up, you can circle down again and a big circles just targeting the cheeks. So you want to really target the cheeks, warm the whole face. You can even rest your whole hand right against the side of his face that we're, the massage stroke, the motions in circles on the cheek, but you can have skin to skin contact even on the sides of the head. When you're finish stroking in circles a few times, bring your hands up, sides of the face to the top of the forehead and just rest them in the middle before you move on to the next stroke.

Community Members who...

• Favorited this Video
• Rated This Video

Top Tags