Health Sciences 3025A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Massage, Symmetry In Biology, Asclepius
14 Dec 2016
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There are 11 concepts of manual healing: the body is a unit, structure and function is interrelated, when normal adaptability is disrupted, disease may ensue. Bilateral symmetry musculoskeletal is symmetrical but we often aren(cid:495)t. Gravity mass, it is our carried weight that can cause a lot of mechanical issues. Tensegrity or tensional integrity comes from engineering principle and applies to human body balance between compression and tension, the effective use of these tensional use. Pain and guarding (minimizing a movement through guarding when pain is a normal response which protects you) Compensation = back pain has to compensate for certain weaknesses in certain parts of your body and the muscles over work and then hurt. We are not moving as much as we used to. Goal minimizes energy usage and strains on our bodies. Example of women who suffered a leg/hip fracture and thought help from a shaman and chiropractor and the regular chiro therapy helped her restore rom.
