THAI ACCUPRESSURE

ORTHOPEDIC PATHOLOGIES
Orthopedic pathologies that are treated by Thai traditional routines

The routines in the book Thai Acupressure, treat many of the most common orthopedic pathologies that can be treated by a manual therapeutic method. They treat soft tissue ailments such as muscular hypertonicity and myofascial trigger points, muscular weakness, muscle strains, tendinous disorders such as tendinosis, tendonitis and tenosynovitis, ligament sprains, osteoarthritis, neuro-vascular entrapments and neural tensions. The routines cannot treat serious pathologies such as fractures, joint dislocations, orthopedic ailments created by viral or bacterial diseases nor by internal or systemic diseases. This book does not include many more treatment routines that are practiced in Thailand for the treatment of pathologies and conditions beyond those treated by the routines in this book. One can study many more treatment routines based on point combinations in advanced courses in different schools and with different practitioners in Thailand.


Pathologies, as defined by western medicine, may produce different conditions. The routines in my book may treat some of these conditions but may not treat other conditions and symptoms of the same pathology. A herniated spinal disc for instance will create different conditions depending on the degree of herniation, its location and its direction. The Thai routines in this book may treat some of these conditions very effectively but cannot treat other possible conditions of this same pathology. On the other hand a few different pathologies will be treated by a single one acupressure treatment routine. The routine “Shoulder pain when raising the arm” for instance, is used very effectively in the treatment of several different shoulder pathologies such as adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder), subacromial bursitis, calcific tendonitis, rotator cuff tears or tendinosis, shoulder impingement syndrome, and bicipital tendinosis or tenosinovitis.


Table of pathologies

In the left column of the following table is a list of the 60 Thai treatment routines that are presented in my book and in the right column a list of the possible underlying pathologies these routines may treat.