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patients because it may damage the Popliteal dard practice guidelines for therapeutic Thai
artery and lymph nodes. massage.

Conclusions Acknowledgments

This study indicated that the SPs and This research was funded by a grant

BLs of CTTM are always associated with or from Mahasarakham University (2013).
closely related to anatomical structures, es-
pecially arteries, nerves and muscles. Our

study focused on the lower limbs as thera-
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