Giriraj

From Knee, Leg, Foot

GIRIRAJ — carrying the thigh back upward

Fingers together, clockwise, knee → groin, along three or four lines

Several treatments in this atlas carry a person's name rather than a place — Giriraj and Pradeep here, and elsewhere Loveleen, Raman, Shivaji, Mauneesh. The convention is that a technique is named for the student or patient in connection with whom it was found: the method and the story of its finding travel together, and the name is the index entry. The cost is that the name tells a newcomer nothing, which makes these the entries a student must actually learn rather than half-recall.

This is given to loosen the muscles above and below the knee. It can also be given with the patient seated. If treating them lying down, put a pillow under the thigh. Seated Supine Both sides

Bring your fingers together and, starting near the knee and working up to the groin, at many closely spaced places, carry the muscles upward with a clockwise action. Do the same along three or four separate lines. Finally, take the muscles of the outer side of the thigh across towards the femur bone and push them upward. Do both legs, one after the other.

After this, calf muscle ghisai is to be done. If both knees hurt, do both sides; otherwise do the affected side only.

Clockwise is defined for you — "clockwise" means bringing the fingers together and turning them round and round in the direction the hands of a clock move, so that the stiffness of the tissue underneath is released. It is a rolling of the tissue, not a stroking of the skin: the bunched finger pads take the muscle with them as they turn, and each turn carries it upward before the hand lifts off and moves on to the next closely spaced place.

The direction of travel is the whole point. Giriraj runs from near the knee up to the groin — carrying the thigh tissue back the way it came, away from the joint it has been dragged into. Working from groin down to knee would be a pleasant stroke and the opposite treatment. "Bring your fingers together" gives the tool: four finger pads bunched into one small firm contact, not a flat palm and not a thumb. "At many closely spaced places" gives the spacing: you stop, roll, lift, move up a little, roll again, all the way to the groin. "Three or four separate lines" gives the coverage — inner thigh, middle, outer, and a fourth if the thigh is broad. (Figure 23.2)

The final move is a different action and is easy to lose. The muscles of the outer side of the thigh are taken across towards the femur bone and then pushed upward. Across, then up — the only two-direction move in the treatment, over the long tough band that so many painful knees complain from.

And the closing sentence is a prescription, not a note. If both knees hurt, do both sides; otherwise do the affected side only. Compare Back of knees, where both knees are done regardless. Different rules attached to different treatments, each complete where it stands.

Also explained in

• PRADEEP — the pillow, the jerk, the walks and the stand Knee, Leg, Foot

  Three rounds; then number 5 What it is for Part of the knee sequence, following Giriraj and calf muscle ghisai Stage 1 is a treatment, not bedding.

• The knee sequence, said aloud Knee, Leg, Foot

  ine separable treatments, their counts and their sides, in one order THE METHOD, STEP BY STEP The order, with its counts — to be learnt by heart · Treatment · Position · Tool · Count · Which side 0 · The chemical points

• Why the chemical points come first Knee, Leg, Foot

  Giriraj carries the thigh tissue back upward, the direction it was pulled down from; the calf ghisai does the same below; Pradeep works the region from four sides.

• LEFT CALF MUSCLE GHISAI — three stages, three tools Knee, Leg, Foot

  Patient's position Follows Giriraj; the left leg as named — the affected side, or both if both knees hurt Left Right Where the hands are placed 1 — tips of both thumbs, pressing firmly into the inner side of the leg,

• Questions students ask Knee, Leg, Foot

  Back of knees says do the other knee as well, but Giriraj says only the affected side.

• The knee and the lower limb Each Point in Use

  issue pulled back to its place, and a numb leg that cannot report Table 16 — The knee, the calf, the foot and the vessels of the leg Point What it is used for When it must not be used Notes Giriraj Supine Given for knee

• Introduction Knee, Leg, Foot

  Give Giriraj along three or four lines with a clockwise carrying action, finish it at the outer thigh, and follow it with the calf muscle ghisai in its three stages — 3, 3, and 6 and 6.

• How to read this article Each Point in Use

  A physical point is named for a place, a movement or a person — Back arrow, L5–S1 ghisai, Giriraj, Pradip, Shivaji, Vasanti.

• The line that closes the chemical half Each Point in Use

  These treatments are called after a place on the body, a movement of the hand, or the person in whom the treatment was first worked out — Back arrow, L5–S1 ghisai, Giriraj, Pradip, Shivaji, Sudhakar, Vasanti.

• Two cases from the reference Each Point in Use

  Knee cap free and Giriraj for the knees.

• The three tiers — point, formula, treatment The Shorthand

  The same custom is at work when a formula here is called Loveleen, Raman, Giriraj, Pradeep, Shukla or Vasanti — each the given name of a person in whose case the manoeuvre was first found.

• The master list — every treatment point, by the position the patient is placed in The Shorthand

  Code Full name / Hindi Where it is taught in this wiki Adr Adrenal Face Down Swt Sweat Face Down Back Arrow Back Arrow, or Blood supply to lungs Face Down H arrow — Face Down On the spine — Face Down Beside the spine — Face Down Round arrow —

• PARALYSIS CLOCKWISE — down the inside, up the outside Uncommon Problems

  "Clockwise" is defined for you and is the same action as in Giriraj: the bunched finger pads take the muscle with them as they turn, rolling the tissue rather than stroking the skin, and each turn carries it along the na

• T8, Rocket, Katka — and how these names were made Uncommon Problems

  Shukla, Vasanti, and in the last article Pradeep and Giriraj.