A Study of Manual Therapy of Korea and Foreign

한국의 맨손치료와 외국의 맨손치료에 관한 연구

  • Kim, Chang-Sook (Department of Physical Therapy, Graduate School of Rehabilitation Science, Daegu University) ;
  • Kim, Yeon-Ju (Department of Physical Therapy, Graduate School of Rehabilitation Science, Daegu University) ;
  • Bae, Sung-Soo (Department of Physical Therapy, College of Rehabilitation Science, Daegu University)
  • 김창숙 (대구대학교 재활과학대학원 물리치료학과) ;
  • 김연주 (대구대학교 재활과학대학원 물리치료학과) ;
  • 배성수 (대구대학교 재활과학대학 물리치료학과)
  • Published : 2006.05.30

Abstract

Purpose : This article has to compare and clarify the Korea traditional manual therapy and foreign. Methods : This is a literature study with books and books for Korea traditional manual therapy. Results : Korea traditional manual therapy is a species Koryo medicine that is prevention and treatment a disease stimulated in body one part by hand. It has included yacson, doin, sooki, massage, digital compression and chuna. And trend of manual therapy cover the whole medical in Europe, but America has two categories which is the neurologic manual therapy and the orthopedic manual therapy. Conclusion : Korea had been accepted manual therapy which was operated in foreign. This foreign manual therapy was very similar to korea. So it is necessity for a systematic and comparative study for korea traditional manual therapy.

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