Orthopedic Pathologies

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.  One can study treatment routines based on point combinations at different schools and with different practitioners in Thailand.

Thai acupressure routines may treat some conditions of a pathology 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 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 subacromial bursitis, calcific tendonitis, rotator cuff tears or tendinosis, shoulder impingement syndrome, and bicipital tendinosis or tenosinovitis.

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