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| Processed by: | ycandau (2015-04-23 16:57:01 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 54547 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> It's not really very much like chiropractic. There is no attempt to realign the spine, for example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMJ8st7Zra0 The following webpage has a detailed description in English, including this: "In a demonstration of nieji, spine squeezing, Jia asked a child to lie on her stomach, and used the thumbs and index fingers of both hands to slightly squeeze the skin along both sides of the spinal cord. Starting at the end of coccyx, she continued upwards until her fingers reached the neck." http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/12/content_468432.htm K ~ 捏脊 niējǐ [ n ] ◊ {med} massaging a child's back cure indigestion |
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- 捏脊 捏脊 [nie1 ji3] /chiropractic (TCM)/ + 捏脊 捏脊 [nie1 ji3] /form of therapeutic massage, mainly for children, in which a roll of skin is squeezed, working from the base of the spine to the neck (TCM)/ |