Massage Therapy - Massage Therapy

Japanese: あんま術 - あんまじゅつ
Massage Therapy - Massage Therapy

...Along with Anma and Massage, it is one of the three manual techniques. Due to the policy of full adoption of Western medicine from the Meiji period onwards, traditional Anmajutsu changed from treating illnesses to providing comfort, so in the early Taisho period, therapists who used Do-in (breathing and exercise techniques) and Judo Katsuho to the ancient Anmajutsu, incorporated theories and techniques of modern manual therapy such as American chiropractic (spinal correction therapy) and osteopathy (bone setting therapy) and developed it. The techniques can be broadly divided into the following three types...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Anma-jutsu" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…あんま,マッサージとともに手技三法といわれる。明治以降の西洋医学全面採用の政策により,従来のあんま術が病気の治療より慰安術に変化したため,大正初期になって,古来のあんま術に導引(呼吸と体操法),柔道活法などを用いた療術師たちが,アメリカのカイロプラクティックchiropractic(脊柱矯正療法)やオステオパシーosteopathy(整骨療法)など近代的手技療法の理論や技法をとり入れて発展させてきたものである。その手技には大別すれば次の3種がある。…

※「あんま術」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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