Modalities Flashcards
Considerations for tui na
-Patient’s posture
-Patient’s tolerance level (light or hard)
-Pressure layer (superficial or deep)
-Time (suggest 30 minutes for first treatment)
-Be careful with emotional patient
-No treatment right after meal
8 primary tui na groups?
- Pressing (An Ya)
- Linear – Moving (Tui)
- Rubbing (Rou)
- Pushing – Rolling (Tui- Gun)
5, Pinching – Grasping (Na-Nie)
6, Vibrating (Zheng) - Tapping – Knocking (Pai- Kou)
- Articular movement
Cautions for tui na
- Gentle or no tui na for acute injuries
-Light with xu
-Strong with excess
-Never over open wounds
Elbow horizontal pushing
Good for high tolerance patients and locations of hip and back
Major linear pushing
Good for treating soft tissue injury, swollen, and chronic pain in 4 limbs.
Plucking
Good for separating the tears of muscle, relaxing muscle
Tennis elbow, frozen shoulder, stiff neck
Sweeping
Good for treating headaches, dizziness, HBP.
Tweezering
Good for treating trigger fingers, arthritis of joints, hand and joints pain, etc.
Rubbing
Mild stimulation and good to work on chest, abdomen, and hypochondria areas.
Kneading
1, Finger Kneading: Infant massage…
2, Palm Kneading: Big flat muscular areas, abdomen, hypochondria, and back…
3, Major Thenar Kneading: face, chest, small joints…
Pinching
1, Mostly for infants and children.
2, Work on UB lines, which are bilateral of spine.
3, From Du 1 to Du 14.
4, More focus on tonification.
Grasping
Good for neck, upper back and four extremities.
3, It has functions of opening blocked meridians, relaxing muscles, relieving pain
Vibrating
Indications:
Regulate endocrine, (adrenal cortex hormone),
Regulate digestive system function Bidirectional.
Abdominal tension or pain;
Digestive issues;
Qi sinking; etc.
400—600 times/ minute
Practical method:
“Cloudy Hands”
Knocking
Good for muscle rich area, shoulder, back, buttocks and thigh.
Release muscles, open channels
Sciatica, lumbar hip soft tissue strain, lower limb weakness and numbness and headache, vertigo.
Swing
Swing method is to make the passive rotation around the joints;
Functional movement technique;
Be used as warming up of some complex technique;
Treatment duration
Tonifying/reducing
tonifying: short (less than 20 mins)
Reducing: Long (more than 20 mins)
Twirling and thrusting
Tonifying/reducing
Tonifying: 9x (setting mountain on fire)
Reducing: 6x (penetrating heavenly closeness)
Rotating needles
Tonify/reduce
Tonifying: Counter clockwise/Thumb forward forcefully and backwards gently
Reducing: Clockwise/ thumb backwards forcefully, forwards gently
Needle Direction
Tonify/reduce
Tonifying: With the meridian
Reducing: Against the meridian
Respiration/Needle insertion
Tonify/readuce
Tonifying: Exhale on insertion/inhale on removal
Reducing: Inhale on insertion/exhale on removal
Insertion/removal of the needle
Tonify/Reduce
Tonifying: Slow insertion, quick withdrawal + cover with a cotton ball
Reducing: Quick insertion, slow withdrawal =do not cover
Lifting and thrusting
Tonfy/Reduce
Tonifying: Forceful thrusting, gentle lifting
Reducing: Gentle thrusting, forceful lifting
Amplitude
Tonify/reduce
Tonifying: Small amplitude
Reducing: Large amplitude
Setting the mountain on fire
Tonify
Life and thrust 9X at the first 1/3, repeat for the middle and bottom thirds. repeat entire process 9x.