Tui Na

What exactly is Tui Na?

"Tui-Na is the branch of Chinese medicine that treats the patient using only the physician's hands to bring about a change in the patient's condition. Like Chinese medicine itself, Tui-Na can be viewed as a sum of three different styles or systems. It essentially boils down to three main skills - soft tissue treatment, skeletal alignment, and energy issuance. Tui-Na is the least invasive of the 3 modalities of traditional Chinese medicine, with no foreign substance whatsoever penetrating the patient's skin or being ingested. While the casual observer may draw parallels with massage or chiropractic, Tui-Na is a very different science when viewed as a whole, even though there are techniques within Tui-Na that resemble the other two modalities of manual therapy."

Well, there's a whole website dedicated to Tui Na!
http://www.tui-na.net/

Had to go for tui na and blood cupping today! Pulled a tendon that's what the shifu said. Was on the mrt about 4 days ago when a lady tried to cross infront of our stroller to get to the other side, the mrt jerked and she almost fell on my lil B BUT my hand came out and push her back, thus 'pulling a tendon/muscle'??

If you're 'horizontally challenged' person, please please do NOT attempt to walk/cross infront of a stroller in a moving mrt because you might fall back and hurt the baby? Always walk/cross behind the stroller!! Well... everyone out there, please always walk behind a stroller, to save the Mama the agony and the pain of going through tui na and blood cupping!!

So... I have poor blood circulation, tight muscles. I need to exercise more! Apparently, walking is not good enough an exercise. Hmmmm... tough! It's so much easier to travel by mrt or to walk to places when you have a stroller. Cabs are cheap in Taiwan but the hassle of folding and unfolding the stroller amidst the bustling traffic in Taipei and the ever rushing cab drivers, 2 reasons why I prefer not to cab when I have the stroller. Unless I'm absolutely beat from walking! I miss it when I could still carry Bren in the carrier and just cab... Well, I can still carry him but it does put a lil strain on the back!! Many would think he's light compared to other 2 yr olds but this Mama is also petite and not a very strong lady. :)