My forehead massage routine.
I am 36 and recently started to notice vertical lines on my forehead. I decided to get rid of them and started to experiment with different massage techniques.
In the morning before massage.
started with light massage and did intensive trigger point massage on the right side, it was painful.
then trigger point massage on left side. Muscles are relaxed now, but excessive fluid creates uneven surface.
after lymph activation in forehead. Timing from first to 4th picture - 10 minutes.
My problem was not only tight corrugator supercilii muscles, but also excessive fluid. Lymph was not going away, making heavy watery mass, that created creases from pulling heavy mass down when I sleep or look down. My first target was relaxing muscles. Second target - getting water out. That is more difficult, because needs understanding, at which point lymph is stuck. After lymph activation in forehead effect was nice, but creases come back in 10 minutes, meaning, that traffic jam of lymph is somewhere else down the road. After some research and reading publications, I came to understanding that submandibular (under jaw) zone creates traffic jam. Next few days I was doing painful trigger point massage under jaw, massaged lymph down to neck. Then I did lymph drainage massage from eyebrows to midline between eybrows (yes, against classical massage to ears, i did massage to center instead, because thats my individual lymph pathway from this zone!), then down to nose and down to under jaw. Effect was wonderful to me, and lymph drainage effect was more stable than from massaging forehead only! Submandibular zone was creating traffic jam, that lead to fluid accumulation above eyebrows.
So, now pictures before all this and few days later after intensive lymph drainage.
before all these.
few days later.
Keep on going! Trigger points and fluids are stubborn and keep coming back. But with regular massage I want to achieve stable effect.