The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
- 제8권1호
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- Pages.109-119
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- 1996
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- 1229-0475(pISSN)
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- 2287-156X(eISSN)
근막이완술과 부항의 접목
Connection of Myofascial Release to Cupping
- Baek Seung-Ryong (Department of Physical Therapy, Yechone Baek Oriental Clinic) ;
- Chung Hyung-Kuk (Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Cheon Buck National University Hospital) ;
- Bae Sung-Soo (Department of Physical Therapy, College of Rehabilitation Science, Taegu University)
- 발행 : 1996.08.01
초록
Although the physical therapy of both East and West has been based on an identical philosophy, they have had their own therapy with difference in its form and pattern. In general, cupping is used to diagnose and treat viscera by means of acupuncture point, and myofascial release is also used for both diagnosis and orthopedic treatment on the basis of trigger point and myofascial however, when they have a lot of identical facts such as using both mental and physical aspects of human beings for treatment, keeping nervous action balanced, and recovering depressed nervous functions and relieving the pain. In addition. their identical fact includes that they tend to treat patients by using symptoms and reaction shown in their skin, and that both East and West try to consider myofascia as an integrated totality and as a unified body of organic functions with correlations. Among the principles of myofascial release, recently, it has been very identical that stimulus given to the skin results in synapse to sympathetic nerve through dosal horn cell has an effect on viscera, and that cupping is sued for diagnosis and treatment of viscera. It is required, therefore, to continue to carry out studying on this field.