A Traditional Medical Technique
By Richard Gold. 8.5" x 11", 202 pages, paperback. This book offers a practical approach to showing and describing individual techniques of traditional Thai massage, a manual medicine branch from 2500 years of traditional Thai medicine. Combining the elements of yoga, shiatsu, and acupressure, and working with energy pathways and therapy points, the reader is given a step-by-step presentation of each technique, its contraindications, and precautions. B&W photos throughout to clarify techniques.