What You Can Learn with a thorough Manual Evaluation (Video)

When evaluating a person to decide on a course of treatment, or someone with a complicated medical history, it is very helpful to do a complete palpatory exam.  Manual Therapy is an effective treatment in itself for a lot of conditions (for some things it is the treatment of choice), and a method of finding out information that can help create a very thorough treatment plan.

Sometimes in the course of doing this kind of evaluation, you can discover information that may not have come out during a medical history, or even information that your client may have forgotten about or does not realize is important.

Nakazono-Sensei, during my training in this form of Manual Therapy, liked to say that “In Oriental Medicine, Diagnosis and Treatment are the same - you should treat someone as if you are diagnosing, and diagnose as if you are treating them.”

When you are touching someone in a therapeutic context, you are affecting them at the same time that you are discovering things about their condition.  Sometimes you can find out some surprising things…

Please contact me if you think you or your students might like to learn more about these kinds of therapies.

For more information, please give me a call at (206) 632-5640, or email me at ed@hibikimedia.com (Click the envelope icon at the top right of this page)

Martial Arts and Medicine - the Sinew Channels (Video)

Usually, in the US, when you hear about the relationship between Martial arts and Asian Medicine, you hear about Taiqichuan or Qigong.  That is because most Acupuncture practitioners in the US come from Chinese traditions.  There is a rich history of martial arts medicine from other cultures, too.  My first teacher of Japanese Medicine, Masahilo Nakazono, was an Aikido teacher - you can watch some video of him here:

I also spent many years training in a Korean martial art, and it helped me to expand my understanding of what I had learned from Nakazono-Sensei.

Nakazono-Sensei always said that “Martial arts and medicine are the same.” I have been curious about that ever since, and my study of that has taken me to a lot of different places.  Here is a video that addresses one of the things that I learned from my explorations…

I will be creating several educational products and teaching classes about the sinew channels, and how that relates to the treatment of injury with Oriental Medicine.  Acupuncturists, massage therapists and other bodyworkers, and people from other fields of therapy could benefit from a deeper understanding of this aspect of Asian medical theory, I think.

For more information, please give me a call at (206) 632-5640, or email me at ed@hibikimedia.com (Click the envelope icon at the top right of this page)