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Body surface anatomy to improve the quality of massage
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Body surface anatomy to improve the quality of massage

Watch and learn body surface anatomy knowledge created by the vice principal of a Japanese acupuncture school.
Last updated 3/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • You can remember the position of the muscles you need to massage.
  • Learn how the muscles to be massaged work.
  • Learn the muscle knowledge necessary for a professional massage therapist to be able to answer questions from customers.
  • マッサージに必要な体表解剖学の知識

Course content

2 sections8 lectures34m total length
  • Surface Anatomy Basics4:51
  • Lumber back4:09
  • Chest and Abdomen4:06
  • Upper Limbs (posterior)6:26
  • Buttocks3:26
  • Thigh(posterior)7:41
  • Posterior side of the lower leg3:24

Requirements

  • None in particular. Interest in massage.

Description

What is this muscle?
Is this muscle a deep muscle?

Where are the acupuncture point that work for this muscle?

Where is the innervation of this muscle?


Have you ever been asked the question?

Especially for those who work in salons and treatment centers where there are many active customers, and for yoga and Pilates instructors.

Have you ever been asked such a question once or twice?

In recent years, the number of magazines specializing in health, sports, and exercise, including the magazine “Tarzan,” has increased.

These are still growing in circulation even during the publishing recession, and readers of these magazines are all familiar with muscles.

When I got a question like the beginning from such people,


Yes! You know it well.
This ○○ muscle is a deep muscle, and the superficial muscle is here.

And that muscle starts around here, It ends around here,It ends around here,
The innervation  this muscle is ○○ nerve,

The acupuncture point that are effective for this muscle are here, saying  ○○.


If you can return something like

how is it?

I’m sure you will be stared at by the customer with respect!

And,Big difference with rivalswill be able to be attached.

So how can we make such an explanation?

To do that, you need to master some knowledge.

that is···

Body surface anatomyis.

Only doctors and nationally qualified healthcare professionals are learning this,The therapist who masters this perfectlyVery unlikelyWould beVery few people can teach accuratelyIt is.

However, there are people who can teach it well.

that is,I am Akira Harada, the deputy principal of Ochanomizu Harikyu College.


Hello,
Therapist training school,
I’m Mitsutoshi Taniguchi from the Japan Body Care Academy.

Mr. Harada is a friend of mine

It is said that healers and therapists who utilize oriental medicine must have it. Author of “Kyoana Impact”And others already7 booksIs the one who has published.

At our school, we have been selling two online teaching materials with the cooperation of Professor Harada, which has been very well received.

And this time, as the third one, what you are creating now is

Online teaching material “Body surface anatomy basic edition”is.

As the name suggests, body surface anatomy means anatomy from the surface of the body. This time, Professor Harada, where and where are the main muscles connected just by touching the customer’s body?

Also, please explain the start and stop of muscles as much as possible without using technical terms.

Also, the typical nerves and acupoints on those muscles

Mr. Harada’s favorite animationI will introduce you using


By mastering this knowledge with this online materialYour massage will become even more detailed and you can raise the level of your massage at once.

Of course, customers will be able to explain their muscles and acupoints, as well as their innervating nerves, with confidence.

However, if you go into detail, it will become infinitely detailed, so

This time, as a “basic edition”, even those who are completely new to it will be able to understand the muscles comfortably just by touching the body surface of the customer.

It’s very easy to put together.

In addition, this time, I will explain
The following 10 parts.


Neck, back, abdomen, upper limbs
Buttocks, thighs, lower legs , soles.

Who this course is for:

  • Professional therapist and also a massage enthusiast