Practical Massage Handbook - (2nd Edition)

Author: Shao Mingxi
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book is edited by a renowned expert in tuina therapy and revised based on the first edition, divided into three parts. The first part is on the basics of tuina, including the history, characteristics, and classification of tuina, various tuina techniques and academic schools, commonly used acupoints, mechanisms of action, treatment principles and methods, selection of acupoints and regions, clinical diagnosis and examination, and tuina exercises. The second part is on clinical tuina, detailing the clinical diagnosis and tuina treatment methods for over 140 common conditions in orthopedics, internal medicine, gynecology, urology, pediatrics, and ophthalmology/otolaryngology. The third part is on tuina for health care, including tuina health care methods for various parts of the body, family tuina health care for common conditions, and foot reflexology. This book is rich in content, concise in explanation, illustrated with diagrams, and highly practical. It is suitable for clinical physicians, tuina therapists, and primary care physicians for reference. It can also serve as a guide for Chinese medicine enthusiasts to learn about tuina and practice self-tuina health care.