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Traditional bone-setting is a type of a folk medicine in which practitioners are engaged in joint manipulation. Before the advent of chiropractors, osteopaths and physical therapists, bone-setters were the main providers of this type of treatment. [1] Traditionally, they practiced without any formal training in accepted modern medical ...
Sekkotsu (接骨) or Judo therapy is the traditional Japanese art of bone-setting. It has been used in many Japanese martial arts and has developed alongside Judo into a licensed medical practice somewhat resembling chiropractic in Japan today. A Judo therapist [ja; zh] is a Bone and Muscle Injury Specialist. It is the only Japanese national ...
Die da (Chinese: 跌打; pinyin: diē dǎ; Jyutping: dit 3 daa 2; lit. 'fall [and] hit') or dit da is a traditional Chinese medicine discipline of used to treating trauma and injuries such as bone fractures, sprains, and bruises. Methods including bone-setting and occasional use of topical preparations such as the dit da jow.
Sarah "Crazy Sally" Mapp (baptised 1706 – 1737) was an English lay bonesetter, who gained fame both by performing impressive bone-setting acts in Epsom and London, and by being a woman in a male-dominated profession. [1] Bone-setting was a medical practice used to manipulate and fix musculoskeletal injuries using manual force. [2]
Hugh Owen Thomas was the great-grandson of a young boy who had been shipwrecked on Anglesey (Ynys Môn) between 1743 and 1745 with his brother. One of the young brothers died a few days later but the survivor was given the name Evan Thomas by the family that adopted and raised him, he established a family tradition of bone-setting.
Bone setting is a branch of Mongolian medicine carried out by Bariachis, specialist bone setters. They work without medicines, as anesthetics or instruments. Instead they rely on physiotherapy to manipulate bones back to their proper position. This was done without any pain to the patient.
Chiropractors use x-ray radiography to examine the bone structure of a patient. Vertebral subluxation, a core concept of traditional chiropractic, remains unsubstantiated and largely untested, and a debate about whether to keep it in the chiropractic paradigm has been ongoing for decades. [50]
Traditional bone setters, traditional birth attendants and herbal healers are also fairly distributed around the community setting. Services offered at these centres include: health education, immunization, family planning counselling, treatment of minor ailments and first aid, referrals, and ante-natal. [citation needed]