Rubbing, squeezing, kneading.

 Massaging for ache side you can stroke her with an open palm, and not stopping, affecting on the skin, or doing catching and intermitting move, touching are the most deep layers. Extremities catching with hands and massaging in intermitting pulsing regime, with weak and rising forces for pressing.

Rubbing.

As doing tightly, with a constant pressure, but without a hurt feeling. Thus rubbing doing in both sides, about a vector direction, we are not to say. Move here comb-like. Comb create of middle phalanges fingers/picture2 a, rubbing is soft getting. Comb-like rubbing is a most hard, his doing with a pillow of first phalanges, a few separating theirs in sides/picture 2b. Pinch -like is too, rubbing, and massaging here a region between a big and all other fingers of hands.

Kneading.

Also matching by name, as tissue kneading with variable force, from a zero sensitiveness till a threshold for ache feeling. And kneading direction in your case is centripetal . When massage doing with both hands, thus are tissues of body catching deeply, one hand displaces theirs from itself, other is to itself. And if are moves, hands overflow from a one in the other, creating a not intermitting kneading.

And for muscle a leg is a good method a squeezing as helping  affect a deep on subcutaneous tissue and on the top  layer muscles, and on the  finding in theirs are tensions.

Squeezing activating  lymph flow in massaging region, remove edemas, and fighting stagnations, lowering aches. And such method is a good affecting on the skin, improving her feeding and rising tone. And squeezing is toning effect on organism, exciting cns. Move tighter a squeezed hand on massaging top, as giving pressure as squeezing   with rib, or base of palm, bone, or pillow of big finger/and hand bended in fist/. And 2-3 sec after squeezing a skin looking white, so as squeezing are surface veins-after a blood filling slowly restoring.