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Chinese Self-Massage Therapy: The Easy Way to Health [Paperback]

Ya-Li Fan (Author), Fan Ya-Li (Author)

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In China, self-massage is also called health-care massage (bao jian tui na), while in ancient times it was known as dao yin an mo (abducting and leading massage). Read the first page
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Useful But Hard to Follow, Aug 15 2004
By Juliana Volcheck - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chinese Self-Massage Therapy: The Easy Way to Health (Paperback)
On the plus side, some of the self-massages in this book did seem to help somewhat. On the minus side, this book uses highly technical terminology and instructions. For the AVERAGE person, a description of a location such as, "two body inches lateral to the twelfth thoracic vertebra" is VERY hard to figure out. I must look up words and look at skeleton diagrams to even have a clue what they are talking about, and that still leaves me with a hard time finding the point on my actual body! Most of the time I do not even know if I am doing the massage correctly! The book does contain pictures, but they are not detailed enough to show exactly where some of the points are. Of course not all of the points are this hard to find, but almost all of the massages contain at least one point description that will leave you pulling your hair out! So if you have passed a few college anatomy courses, this should not be a problem for you; but if you are an average person, you are going to need to do some research just to use this book at all.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars From a wonderful healer, Jun 23 2008
By S. Costonis "Earth Acupuncture" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Chinese Self-Massage Therapy: The Easy Way to Health (Paperback)
I had the fortune of taking a class with Dr Ya Li Fan, and I am the richer for it! She is a great doctor and healer who uses Chinese massage in her practice daily. The excersizes in the book really work. You can Really feel the chi. If you are a TCM practitioner or student you will have no problem understanding the book, and can easily photocopy the appropriate chapter for your patient, explaining where the "twelth thoracic vertebrae" is.

I liked this book so much that I gave it to one of my favorite teachers, and am ordering a second copy for myself.

The downside to the book is compliance (of course). Even though I have great results when I use the massage, the sequences can be kinda long for Gen-X attention spans. If your or your patients' conditions aren't that bad, you/they probably won't treat yourself/theirselves daily. However, it's probably OK to use a few of the movements from a protocol instead of all of them while self treating.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Chinese Self-massage, Mar 14 2007
By Guilherme Botelho "Amoreluz" - Published on Amazon.com
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I found the book very complete and easy to follow so as to give my patients some homework and co-responsability for their treatment. As always Dr. Bob Flaws' books are highly recommended, even here in Portugal.

Thank you.
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