Manipulation therapist

    When I was very young, I followed my father every day and watched him do manipulation therapy for patients. My father often asked me to help him. Gradually, I liked manipulation. In the early stage of my career, I learned a lot of different skills. Including chiropractic, osteopathy, traditional Chinese medicine maneuver, anatomy, neurology, biomechanics, physiology, X-ray, kinematics, facial science, aesthetics, craniosacral osteoplasty, visiting renowned experts at home and abroad, gathering the strengths of the public, after systematic collation and improvement, specially named "Taiwan's traditional soft maneuver".

Students often ask me, how can I have superb skills?

Excellent skills are not acquired by working overtime on weekends, by learning modules online, or by occasionally trying out two things you have learned. What does that depend on? It depends on time, effort and perseverance.

Think about it. What is not so successful in work life? Whether in or out of the clinic, manual therapy does require the skills of a therapist. From clumsiness in the beginning to ease in the end. In addition to the role of which makes perfect in technique. More persistent practice will bring great opportunities for therapists to acquire superb manipulation skills. But recognizing which skills need to be improved helps you focus directly on what needs to be done.

Practicing techniques that you have mastered at ordinary times without any purpose can only help you improve these skills a little. What we need to do is to constantly examine ourselves and analyze the skills we usually use in clinics.

We need to keep asking ourselves whether the manipulation I do every day or every week really works. Is it effective enough? Can flexibly use the mechanism, principle, angle, strength and strong thinking, internal force, penetration force I taught play a safe and painless maximum effect on patients'fixed-point positioning? What other areas need to be improved so that patients can benefit more? So, in the end, how far your technique can go and how much experience and experience you have depended to a certain extent on your self-reflection rather than simple and mechanical repetition.

     Take a patient's shoulder periarthritis pain and lead to a series of sports mechanics problems as an example. I'll ask him first if he has joint limitation or myofascial limitation, which leads to shoulder periarthritis and shoulder pain. If so, use various exercises to improve the restricted area.

At this time, we can use appropriate manipulation therapy to benefit patients. When patients recover part of their motor ability, we should make more effective use of any new exercise to help patients get more range of motion. This is the time for neuromuscular efficiency to be involved.

It is essential for patients to have the ability to acquire appropriate strength and endurance within the new range of exercise to prevent recurrence. With the increase of individual exercise training for patients, the necessity of manipulative therapy gradually decreases.

The unique features of Taiwan's traditional soft tactics are: mindfulness, internal force and penetrating force! 

The key to Taiwan's traditional soft tactics is to look, smell, touch, heart, hand, pork, strength, penetration and in place! 

I have always believed that manipulative therapy as a technique can be inherited in the help of therapists. This is also my sixteen years ago from the beautiful island of Taiwan came to the mainland, insisting on teaching more students: neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, disc protrusion, scoliosis, andrology, gynecology, prenatal and postnatal, face carving and other body repair patients, without surgery, injection, medicine! To carry forward the traditional Chinese medicine culture of soft manipulation in Taiwan, this technique needs the constant attention of therapists, Conscious Improvement and long-term practice. Manipulation therapy can be used at the right time to improve the activity of patients.

Therapists can use various manipulation methods to improve patients'motor ability according to the different disease conditions of different patients. I believe that as long as the therapist has the right indications, the vast majority (if not all) of the manual treatments are effective. Once using manipulation therapy, we should remember to cooperate with a certain form of exercise, so that we can make the treatment plan to obtain the best effect.

When the patient's activity ability is improved through manipulation therapy and exercise, we can further adopt different exercise to help patients achieve more personalized or specific treatment goals.

Manipulation therapy is not only a skill, but also a means to achieve the goal of treatment.

Professor Ye Huiyang, the founder of traditional soft manipulation in Taiwan, hopes that this article can give some inspiration to therapists who devote themselves to manipulation therapy.