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Bodywork
Any of a number of
healing techniques or therapies involving hands-on massage, physical
regimens and/or manual treatment of the body.
Practices include massage, deep tissue manipulation,
acupressure, energy work, movement awareness, energy balancing, structural
work and other therapies to induce relaxation, increase circulation, treat
pain and stiffness, and to break up chronic patterns of muscular tension.
Bodywork in all its forms helps to reduce pain, soothe
injured muscles, stimulate blood and lymphatic circulation, and promotes deep
relaxation.
See
Bodywork Tantra on Land and in Water,
Bodywork: What Type of Massage to Get-And How to Make the Most of It,
Chinese Bodywork: A Complete Manual of Chinese Therapeutic Massage,
Encyclopedia of Healing Therapies,
Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork,
Massage and Bodywork Resource Guide of North America,
The Alternative Health & Medicine Encyclopedia,
The Alternative Medicine Handbook: The Complete Reference Guide to Alternative and Complementary Therapies,
The Encyclopedia of Bodywork: From Acupressure to Zone Therapy
and
Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork: 750 Questions & Answers.
See
also
Alternative
Medicine,
Aromatherapy,
Body Cleansing,
Biofeedback,
Chelation Therapy,
Chiropractic,
Flower Essence Therapy,
Herbology,
Holistic Medicine,
Iridology,
Macrobiotics,
Massage Therapy,
Naturopathy,
Osteopathy,
Polarity Therapy,
Reflexology,
Reiki,
Rolfing,
The Chakra Store,
Casting Black Magic Spells,
Commanding Spirits,
The Tarot Store and
Divination & Scrying Tools and
Supplies.
Sources: (1) Whorton, James C.,
Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America,
Oxford University Press;
(2) Longe, Jacqueline L.,
The Gale Encyclopedia of
Alternative Medicine, Thomson Gale; (3)
Mysteries of Mind,
Space & Time: The Unexplained,
H. S. Stuttman Inc. Publishers.
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