BODYWORK
Bodywork Therapy is broadly referred to a set of therapies which utilizes non-physical principles of alternate medicine or energetic anatomy of human body.
As Healing Technique
Bodywork is a form of alternate medicine which are necessarily body-centered therapy. Bodywork is typically performed by a qualified practitioner and is used to help improve health and well-being of the patients. There are many therapies, which include; massage, acupuncture, chiropractic-osteopathic care, craniosacral therapy, and so on.
Body-Mind Connection
When you are dealing with alternative medicine, bodywork come in front as a therapeutic or personal healing technique. It is described as the healing of the human body with a technique, called manipulative therapy, breathwork or energy medicine.
Body Centered
Bodywork technique also seen as the assessment or improvement of human body posture or promotion of awareness of the ‘body-mind connection’. This is an approach that describes the human body and mind as a single but integrated unit. This is also called manipulation of the electromagnetic field, surrounding the human body.
Chronic aches & Pains
When a patient is experiencing chronic aches and severe pains it is a time to get alternate medicine. What you need is an all-natural, instinctive, holistic type of alternate healing medicine. Such alternate healing practices are being utilized for thousands of years. This healing method is known widely as the bodywork.
Mostly Applied Forms of Bodywork
As the bodywork is treated and applied as the alternate medicine, i.e. the type non-medicated medicine which is used along with the medically applied medicine.
Highly Used Forms of Alternate Medicine
The highly useful and mostly applied forms of alternative medicine are:
The best known forms of body work, applied without touch, include; reiki, yoga, pranayama, breathwork respiration, therapeutic touch, the Bates way of sight training qigong and t’ai chi, are most popular.
Different General Forms of Bodywork
The other generally applied forms of bodywork are: the Bowen technique, shiatsu, postural integration, chiropractic, Rolfing, reflexology and Trager method.
Some of the light touch bodywork methods to apply the movement patterns, used for the shift awareness of human body include; Alexander technique, the Feldenkrais method, Hakomi method, integrative body psychotherapy, craniosacral therapy and the somatic experiencing.
The deep tissue massage therapy and the bodywork are interchangeably used in alternative medicine. All forms of bodywork techniques include massage, massage is also used in a large number of touch therapies.
Massage and Bodywork
Once upon a time, massage was viewed as a luxury therapy, applied once a year but now massage is accepted as an effective form of alternate medicine. Millions of patients, around the globe, receive the advice from physicians to combat unhealthy stress and anxiety. But, it is also used to improve sleep, boosting immunity, increasing mental clarity, easing the effects of some cancer treatments, alleviating headaches, reducing depression, and of course to simply relaxation.
Difference Between Bodywork and Massage
Bodywork is a therapy which is mostly body-centered, which is applied by a qualified and highly trained practitioner to help improve the general health and well-being of the patient. The major part of it is massage.
On the other hand, the massage is a technique to rub or manipulate the skin or any part of human body which is manipulated over the skin. As a whole, the massage is the part of bodywork which is a broader alternate medicine but it includes a different modalities, such as, stretching, acupressure and so on.
Usage of Bodywork in the United States
Described below is the summary of data, collected in a survey in Year 2002, by National Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine (NCCIH) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), United States, about the bodywork, utilized by the people:
