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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 ...
After the conflict, Grandmaster Chee Kim Thong deliberately concealed his identity and his martial arts background. He became increasingly known in Malaysia for his work as a very successful healer and bone-setter: bone-setting was one of the medical skills that authentic traditional Chinese martial arts that masters of his generation possessed.
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.
In Deccani-Urdu the word Jarrah is termed for the Orthopaedists who are trained in the discipline of Unani medicine. [1] In South India and particularly Hyderabad, India Jarrah are the bone setters, adjust joint dislocations and physiotherapists, [1] they use non-surgical means to treat fractures, dislocation, sports injuries and set the bone without applying any plaster.