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are not treated and cured locally; rather, they are regarded Trigger point myotherapy: Practitioners of this technique
as the result of an abnormality or change to the entire body apply pressure to specific points on the body to relieve
and are, therefore, treated holistically. Traditional Korean tension. Trigger points are tender, congested spots on
medicine does not attempt to learn about the body by muscle tissue that may radiate pain to other areas. Though
dissection, experimentation or analysis, but instead observes the technique is similar to shiatsu or acupressure, this
natural bodily functions as they appear in order to diagnose therapy uses Western anatomy and physiology as its basis.
an illness or ailment.
Trigger point release: A method addressing trigger points
Traditional Mongolian medicine (TMM): Developed (also known as muscle spasm or muscle knots). A trigger
over many years among the Mongolian people. Mongolian point describes a taught band of skeletal muscle located
medical practice spread across their empire and became an within a larger muscle group. Trigger points are tender to
ingrained part of many other people’s medical systems. The the touch and can refer pain to distant parts of the body.
Mongols were the first people to establish a link between Patients may have regional, persistent pain resulting in a
diet and health. Traditional Mongolian doctors were known decreased range of motion in the affected muscles.
as shaman, or holy men.
Trigger points: Rigid, fixed spaces in the myofascial.
Traditional Tibetan medicine: also known as Sowa-Rigpa
medicine, is a centuries-old traditional medical system that Tui na: A form of traditional Chinese medicine that
employs a complex approach to diagnosis, incorporating involves hands-on body treatment to bring the body’s
techniques such as pulse analysis and urinalysis, and utilizes energies into alignment and to stimulate flow of qi.
behavior and dietary modification, medicines composed
of natural materials (e.g., herbs and minerals) and physical
therapies (e.g. Tibetan acupuncture, moxabustion, etc.) to
treat illness. The Tibetan medical system is based upon U
Indian Buddhist literature (for example Abhidharma
and Vajrayana tantras) and Ayurveda. It continues to be
practiced in Tibet, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Ladakh, Siberia,
China and Mongolia, as well as more recently in parts of Ultrasound therapy: The use of sound waves in a
Europe and North America. It embraces the traditional frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing to
Buddhist belief that all illness ultimately results from the stimulate the tissue beneath the surface of the skin as a form
three poisons: ignorance, attachment and aversion. Tibetan of physical therapy.
medicine follows the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths which
apply medical diagnostic logic to suffering. Unani: Unani medicine, also called Unani tibb, Arabian
medicine, or Islamic medicine, a traditional system of
Trager approach: Developed by Dr. Milton Trager, is a healing and health maintenance observed in South Asia.
form of massage that uses gentle, natural movements to The origins of Unani medicine are found in the doctrines of
facilitate deep relaxation, physical mobility, and mental the ancient Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen. As a
clarity. field, it was later developed and refined through systematic
experiment by the Arabs, most prominently by Muslim
Transcendental Meditation (TM): Refers to a specific scholar-physician Avicenna. During the Caliphate (the
form of mantra meditation called the Transcendental political-religious Muslim state that began in 632 CE), the
Meditation technique, and less commonly to the bulk of Greek knowledge was translated into Arabic, part
organizations that constitute the Transcendental Meditation
movement. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918–2008) introduced of that knowledge being the principles of medicine. With
additional contributions of medical wisdom from other parts
the TM technique and TM movement in India, in the mid- of the Middle East and South Asia, Unani medicine came to
1950s. The TM technique involves the use of a sound or be known also as Arabian, or Islamic, medicine.
mantra, and is practiced for 15–20 minutes twice per day
while sitting with the eyes closed.

Transverse friction massage: A massage technique where
the practitioner uses movements that go against the grain of
the muscle.

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