I have been doing manual medicine for a long time, which includes chiropractic and manual therapy and a lot of national methods of working with the body.

Now my own interest in this area is focused on osteopathy, as in my opinion this is the most integral and harmonious idea of ​​the human body. Osteopathy is largely self-sufficient, and in my perception it very harmoniously merges with the ideas of classical Chinese medicine and Qi-Gong, filling in those open theoretical questions that need interpretation and are not precisely defined in the coordinate system of Western medicine.

I do not call myself an osteopath, but I constantly study this topic, and I apply the methods in addition to everything that I did before. Fortunately, I have a wonderful source of information and a talented teacher-consultant in this area, so everything is interesting and I hope effectively.

Continuous study and our own research is a way of life that provides me with a continuous flow of relevant information. Life in this stream is not easy and very interesting. I wish you all the same.

Massage, of course, we all love. Well, how can you not love him? All living things love massage!

There are few contraindications to massage; the use is limited for skin diseases and oncological ones. Well, you can add an acute period of diseases and inflammatory processes to contraindications. But in the rehabilitation period - almost everyone needs it.

Massage techniques are many. Each ethnic group has its own national massage technique, the massage is classified, many monographs and teaching aids have been written. Anyone can become a masseur. And that is great.

As an element of the therapeutic effect, I use massage constantly, sometimes as the main technique, adding the necessary elements from other techniques of therapeutic manipulations to it. Therefore, I do not see the point of describing massage techniques. In their final expression, they rely on specific "author's" hands, which are very individual in their sensory skills.

However, here are two techniques that I consider essential for success (all other factors also work, but much less):

effects on lymphatic flow. This is the most powerful physical effect, the speed of the lymph flow can be increased several times and fundamentally change the state of the massaged area
linear massage along the tendon-muscle channels (the term of Chinese medicine), which are selected taking into account the diagnosis