Things You'll Need:
- Tiger Balm White or other muscle salve.
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Step 1
Take a small amount (about a dime-size dab) of Tiger Balm or whatever muscle salve you have chosen, and work it into your fingertips.
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Step 2
Begin to work the balm into the area where your Sartorius Tendon meets the Gracilis Tendon (the inner side of your knee). Work up and across to the Vastus Medialis with deep, circular strokes of your thumbs (the large muscle on the inner side of your leg, just above the knee).
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Step 3
Use long, deep strokes to work the balm upward into your Sartorius muscle ( runs like a candy-cane stripe from your hip to your inner leg, down near your knee).
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Step 4
Take another dime-size dab of balm and knead the upper, innermost portion of your thigh. These are your Gracilis, Adductor Longus and Pectineus muscles, which do an enormous amount of the work for sidekicks, Axe/circular kicks or any similar technique.
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Step 5
Beginning at the Rectus Femorus Tendon (the tough bit that attaches at the top of your kneecap), knead upwards with your thumbs in small, deep circles, until you have almost reached your hip.
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Step 6
Knead your tensor fasciae latae (the outer side of your thigh, just below your hip) and the topmost portion of your Vastus Lateralis muscle in the same fashion as step 4. Work down the length of the Vastus Lateralis until you reach the Lateral Patellar rectinaculum (the outer side of your knee). Finish by smoothing gentle strokes over the entire upper leg.
