This exercise done five times will take about twenty seconds. If counting each time the trunk is turned to either side, it will be ten counts.
Analysis and Effects of the Combined Massage Exercise No. 8
This exercise is combined in such a manner that there is obtained the movements of the arms and the turning of the trunk to each side together with massage of the lower back.
The movements of the body and the arms and hands in applying the massage movements exercise the muscles and nerves of the arms, the shoulders, the upper chest, the upper and lower back, the hips and the sides of the body. They also influence the kidneys.
The massage influences the muscles, nerves and vessels of the lower back. It also influences the kidneys, bladder and liver and, through the back, the nerves leading to the abdominal organs.
THE COMBINED MASSAGE EXERCISE No. 9
Massaging with the right hand from the outer side of the left thigh, upward over the left hip and lower side of trunk, continuing from there, inward and upward over the left nipple or breast and upper chest and across the latter outward to the right armpit. Then, stroking with the left hand from the outer side of the right thigh upward over the right hip and lower side of trunk, and continuing from there, inward and upward over the right nipple or breast and upper chest and across the latter out to the left armpit; at the same time bending the upper body slightly forward and to the right and left.