Hamstrings

Client: supine
Therapist: alongside, facing head

For this fulcrum, you will be using primarily the same side hand as the side of the client with whom you are working.  You will work with your loose fist while your other hand supports the leg. (Variant: you may choose to ask the client to interlace his/her fingers beneath the knee and actively stretch as you do this technique).  

The fulcrum proceeds superiorly from just above the back of the knee to the ischial tuberosity or beyond it if it is comfortable for both the client and you.

On the right leg, place your right loose fist on the tendon of biceps femoris just above the knee.  Take out the looseness, then take up the slack, and effleurage slowly and deeply up the biceps femoris.  When you get to the ischial tuberosity or just above it, you will have dramatically lengthened the posterior thigh.  Clearly disengage. Then do a second stroke in the same manner and direction, but more on the medial hamstrings (semimembranosus and semitendinosus).

Purposes:

a) restore length and breadth to the hamstrings

b) decompress posterior hip

c) lessen chronic hyperextension of knees

d) facilitate energy flow in the legs/through the bladder meridians

e) enhance energy flow through root chakra

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