Hoiistic Therapahy Bodywork.

 

Kip Magee

INT 349 Week 7 Bodywork.

“Bodywork” Touching is the basis of all forms of bodywork. It is the oldest form of healing and an instinctual form of comforting and soothing form of treatment us and loved one.

Robert S Ivker,. D.O. “Touch is both an effective form of healing, and perhaps the most powerful and direct means we have for conveying and receiving love.” (Trivieri, 2001, p. 215).

United States is concerned a touch-averse society…We need consciously be touch frequently in our lives. Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine promoted his massage. The most popular form of bodywork. Instructed his students to be “the physician must be acquainted with many things, and assuredly with rubbing.”

Thomas Claire author of, “The Bodywork,” estimated 20 million Americans get therapeutic massage. There are over one hundred therapies under the bodywork umbrella.

Eastern Chinese medicine and Ayurveda are the oldest form of massage health care. In the West Hippocrates and the Greek massage therapy benefits of “laying on of hands,” a modern day “energy healing.” These are ancient healing and spiritual texts… including the Vedas of India. The other essential traditional practitioner are China’s The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine, and Egypt’s hieroglyphic, The Third Dynasty. Plus, Christianity Bible. (Trivieri, 2001, p. 215)  

William Harvey (1578-1657) being the first Western physician to discover that blood circulates in the body. The field spread and bodywork practitioner is estimated at approximately 250,000 the single largest form of health care.

As a health benefit many companies recommend using massage therapy as a stress reduction. They use it as a enhancing productivity, and minimize absenteeism.

 

“In 1997, 27% of the 21.2 billion spent on nonconventional health care went toward visits to massage therapists, accounting for 114 million visits per year.” (Trivieri, 2001, p. 215)  

Education is spent regulation states that 3 hundred to thousand hours of instruction. The leading advocated and certification institutions of bodywork Commission for Massage Therapy Accreditation/Approval. The American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), The National Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. And Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals ( ABMP).

Have you ever felt healed by touch? Well, I spent 2 weeks in the hospital after surgery. My sister came every day and patted my head with a cold cloth. That time was the most important part of my livelihood. It gave me prayers and comfort. That was what I needed in the recovery room. She talked to me an tells me how bless I was, and the Angles were with me. That was all I needed to know to sooth me. 

Larry Trivieri Jr.;The American Holistic Medical Association. The American Holistic Medical Association Guide to Holistic Health: Healing Therapies for Optimal Wellness (p. 216). Kindle Edition.