PREFACE

Tuina therapy, as an important part of traditional Chinese medicine and has a long history. It plays an irreplaceable role in the prevention and treatment of many diseases and is diversified by various factions, and different characteristic. This book is a collection of Professor Cui Shusheng’s manual techniques as well as notations of his experience through clinical practice. The book includes effective manipulations in clinical practice as much as possible for amateurs practitioners to apply efficiently.

This book is divided into three parts:

Basic Tuina Manipulations: This chapter introduces the commonly used basic tuina manipulations, including definition, mechanism of action, operating positions, methods and attention points. Those tuina manipulations are widely used and applicable for most indications requiring tuina therapy.

Tuina Manipulations Applied on Different Part of the Body: This chapter includes 11 sections which introduce the tuina manipulations used on 10 parts of the body and the technique of pediatrics. Each section includes the basic tuina manipulations, special tuina techniques and clinical application. The basic tuina manipulations are common manipulations used in treatment of most illnesses occurring in relevant part of the body in clinic. The manipulations explained in the first chapter are not repeated here. Special tuina techniques are those used for some illnesses occurring in relevant part of the body. Clinical application provides some cases treated by Professor Cui Shusheng, and his manual techniques on specified diseases are summarized. This part includes the manipulations mentioned above, thus no atlas is provided.

Exercises for Manipulation Practice: This chapter mainly introduces Eighteen Exercises for practice, Baduanjin Exercise on the bed, and Relaxing Exercise for the cultivation of the tuina practitioner.

The diseases mentioned in the book involve traumatology diseases, orthopedic diseases, medical diseases, gynecological diseases, pediatric diseases, etc., thus it can be used clinically by medical working staff, used for both teaching and scientific research, and it can be consulted by amateurs as well. If there are any improper descriptions, please point them out so that they can be corrected.

The writing work of this book is done by the Study Group Led By Nationally-Acclaimed TCM Doctor Cui Shusheng. We would like to thank Ilyas Ambeyah Hamid and Jonathan M. Fields Ap from American for their arduous labor in the revision of this book.

The authors

August 2017 in Beijing,China