Massaging a Child With an Earache: Face

Video Transcript

"So we just did some of the strokes on the neck and behind the ears and we're going to go ahead and move on to the face. Is it o'kay if I massage your face? O'kay. So rest your hands right on the forehead and you are stroking down the sides of the nose. We are going to go ahead and do a little bit of work clearing her sinuses hopefully because we are not sure what is causing her earache and it might be due to sinuses so we are doing a few strokes down over the bridge of the nose, helping to warm the area and then we are going to go ahead and come in and do a little bit of a pressure walk. So it is a light but gentle pressure, a firm but gentle pressure walking all the way down and then stroking up and around, walking all the way down, stroking up and around. Any time you are doing massage on the face too you want to be careful not to obstruct her eyesight so keep your fingers a little bit folded back and up so that there are lots of places she can still see when you are doing the massage and when you are done with that stroke just go ahead and bring your hands right back up to the middle of the forehead and rest them together."