Treatment Of Soft Tissue Injury With Traditional Chinese Medicine
Alternative Therapies Herbal Medicine Health Reference Sports Medicine Acupuncture Orthopedics Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation
Treatment of Soft-Tissue Injury with Traditional Chinese Medicine (1983 first-edition hardback) is the rare English-language classic that launched Tui-na, cupping, herbal poultices and acupuncture-based rehabilitation into Western sports-medicine circles. Written by Beijing orthopaedic physician Feng Tian-you and illustrated with 80 step-by-step photographs and meridian charts, this 173-page reference translates centuries of martial-arts locker-room wisdom into a systematic protocol for sprains, strains, bruises and tendon trauma. Collectors value the 1983 printing because it is the only edition that preserves the original Chinese nomenclature alongside Feng’s precise English renderings—later reprints were heavily edited and stripped of photographs.
What makes this copy especially appealing is the personal inscription on the fly-leaf, placing the book in the hands of a practitioner who clearly used it as a working manual. Aside from discreet highlighting on two pages and a small archival tape-repair to the dust jacket, it remains tight, square and un-dog-eared—fresh enough for display yet sturdy for repeated consultation. The sewn signatures and heavy library-grade boards typical of 1980s Hong Kong academic press ensure the book will lie flat while you practice the illustrated manipulation techniques.
For physiotherapists, athletic trainers, acupuncturists or anyone seeking drug-free recovery strategies, this vintage volume delivers protocols you won’t find in modern sports-medicine texts: herbal compress timing, needle depth for collateral ligaments, and qi-circulation exercises that accelerate healing without ice or NSAIDs. Because first-edition copies surface on the secondary market only a few times a year, owning an inscribed, jacketed example is both a practical office resource and a hedge against inflation for collectors of Eastern medical literature.
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