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Massage Tuina |
Tuina is the branch of Chinese medicine that treats the patient using only the physician's hands to bring about a change in the patient's condition. Like Chinese medicine itself, Tui-Na can be viewed as a sum of three different styles or systems. It essentially boils down to three main skills - soft tissue treatment, skeletal alignment, and energy issuance. Tui-Na is the least invasive of the 3 modalities of traditional Chinese medicine, with no foreign substance whatsoever penetrating the patient's skin or being ingested. While the casual observer may draw parallels with massage or chiropractic, Tui-Na is a very different science when viewed as a whole, even though there are techniques within Tui-Na that resemble the other two modalities of manual therapy.
Tuina, is a form of Chinese manipulative therapy often used in conjunction with acupuncture, moxibustion, fire cupping, Chinese herbalism, tai chi, and qigong.
Tuina is a hands-on body treatment that uses Chinese taoist and martial art principles to bring the body to balance. The principles being balanced are the eight principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine The practitioner may brush, knead, roll/press and rub the areas between each of the joints (known as the eight gates) to open the body's defensive (wei) chi and get the energy moving in both the meridians and the muscles. The practitioner can then use range of motion, traction, massage, with the stimulation of acupressure points and to treat both acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions, as well as many non-musculoskeletal conditions. Tui na is an integral part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and is taught in TCM schools as part of formal training in Oriental medicine. Many East Asian martial arts schools also teach tuina to their advanced students for the treatment and management of injury and pain due to training. As with many other traditional Chinese medical practices, there are several different schools with greater or lesser differences in their approach to the discipline. It is related also to Chinese massage or anma.
Tuina, a body work therapy, is a complete system of body alignment based on TCM. It utilizes acupressure, stretching and gentle manipulation to restore balance and harmony in the human body. As an additional therapy to acupuncture treatment, cupping (negative pressure from a jar), and moxibustion (burning herbs to create heat) can also be used to treat certain types of pain such as arthritis and fibromyalgia. Chinese nutrition and exercise, such as Tai-ji and Qi-gong are also recommended in pain management.
Kimberly Halsey Acupuncture Physician
Treats the Following |
Arthritis
Anxiety
Allergies
Addiction
Asthma
Bronchitis
Back Pain
Cardiovascular
Cough
Colitis
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Common Cold
General Fatigue
Constipation
Chemo Side Effects
Depression
Dental Pain
Dysentery
Diabetis
Dizziness
Ear ache
Epilepsy
Emotional Problems
Emphysema
Fibromyalgia
Gastrointestinal
Gout
Glaucoma
Hypertension
Hypothyriodism
Hyperthyriodism
Headache
Herpes Zoster
Incontinence
Infertility(male)
Infertility(female)
Impotence
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Immune Disorders
Indigestion
Insomnia
Joint Pain
Facial Palsy-Ticks
Macular degeneration
Menstrual
Menopause
Migraine
Mitral valve prolapse
Meniere's
Muscle Pain
Nausia
Neck Pain
Osteo-Arthrities
Pain Sciatica
Pneumonia
PMS
Reproductive Problems
Respitory Disease
Radiation Side Effects
Repetitive Injuries
Rhinitis
RSD
Sinusitus
Sleep disturbance
Sports Injuries
Stop Smoking
Swollen glands
Tinitis
Trigeminal Neuralgia
Urinary tract infection
Vomiting
Whiplash
Weightloss
Plus Many More Health Issues
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World Health Organization (WHO)
on Health and Traditional Chinese Medicine |
It is important to understand what is meant by the word 'health'. The World Health Organization define health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
The World Health Organization recognizes the use of acupuncture in the treatment of a wide range of health problems. In a publication "Acupuncture: The WHO View", the World Health Organization found that acupuncture was indicated in treating the following conditions:
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Acute Tonsilitis
Bedwetting
Bladder Dysfunction
Bronchial Asthma
Bronchitis
Cataracts
Central Retinitis
Common Cold
Conjunctivitis
Constipation
Dental Pain
Diarrhea
Duodenal Ulcer
Dysentery
Esophageal Spasm
Facial Palsy
Frozen Shoulder
Gastric Hyperacidity
Gastritis
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Gingivitis
Headaches/Migraines
Hiccups
Intercostal Neuralgia
Low Back Pain
Meniere's Disease
Nearsightedness
Osteoarthritis
Paralytic Ileus
Peripheral Neuropathy
Pharyngitis
Post-Polio Paralysis
Post-Stoke Paralysis
Sciatica
Sinusitis/Rhinitis
Tennis Elbow
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Toothache
Trigeminal Neuralgia
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US National Institutes of Health |
The US National Institutes of Health issued a consensus statement on acupuncture in 1997, which states that "acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is practiced widely in the United States... and ... promising results have emerged showing the efficacy of acupuncture". The NIH further states that "there is sufficient evidence of acupuncture's value to expand its use into conventional medicine and to encourage further studies of its physiology and clinical value." The NIH report mentions that the efficacy of acupuncture has been found in the following conditions:
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Addictions
Asthma
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Dental Pain
Fibromyalgia
Headache
Low Back Pain
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Menstrual Cramps
Nausea/Vomiting
Osteoarthritis
Stroke Rehabilitation
Tennis Elbow
Various Musculoskeletal Pains
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