Tui Na Master Practioner Level Diploma in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

The BODYHARMONICS® Centre of Oriental Medicine was founded by Maria Mercati in 1992 to provide treatment and training to the highest possible standards in the traditional oriental healing systems.

Alan Orr is the only practitioner under Maria Mercati to be currently teaching the Tui Na Foundation course. The course Alan runs is to the guidelines and standards set out by the BODYHARMONICS® Centre of Oriental Medicine. Once you have the foundation level you can then also go on to study the Master Practitioner Course and Acupuncture.

Tui Na which means to ‘push and grasp’ is a medical treatment related to acupuncture.

Tui Na aims to facilitate the flow of Qi (pronounced ‘chee’) through a system of channels called ‘meridians’. Stimulation of specific combinations of Qi-points on these meridians regulates and balances the body’s internal organs.

The Master Practitioner course teaches advanced manipulation techniques that allow an even wider spectrum of conditions to be treated than those treated by osteopaths and chiropractors. It raises the practitioner to an altogether higher professional level in Tui Na Chinese massage than the foundation course.

Most importantly, it gives thorough training in tongue & pulse diagnosis. The syndromes are also taught which provide the necessary diagnostic skills to broaden the types of conditions treated. This course is the next stepping stone of personal enlightment.

This Tui Na Chinese massage therapy course includes sports injury, maintenance & rehabilitation Tui Na. Over 100 new complex manipulative techniques for treatment are taught at this level, which make you more confident, enhancing & deepening your knowledge of TCM as well as producing amazing results!

Also learn Tui Na Chinese massage using your feet (excellent for big clients)

The sports injuries component teaches you the most effective possible ways of treating sports injuries using foundation and master practitioner manipulative techniques enabling you to work in sports injury clinics.

A strong background of basic foundation level Tui Na is required before these techniques can be learned - Foundation Level must be completed before Master Practitioner Level.

HOW YOU CAN BENEFIT FROM THE COURSE

Anyone who wishes to learn the art of hands-on healing either for their personal development or for the well-being of their family can do the course without taking any exams. Those with no special prior experience who would like to develop a career in the fields of oriental hands-on medicine. Those professionals already involved in complementary and medical fields such as Aromatherapy, Swedish massage, Reflexology, Sports and Remedial massage, Shiatsu, Acupuncture, Physiotherapy and Osteopathy who seek new and more effective hands-on treatments to relieve the forms of chronic pain.

WHAT DOES TUI NA TREAT?

• Tui na is effective in maintaining good health and treating a huge variety of pathological conditions:
• Tui Na speeds up healing in the musculo-skeletal system treating all chronic and acute neck, shoulder, back and joint pain, sciatica and arthritis.
• Tui Na even promotes healing in the most inert connective tissues such as tendons and ligaments. Uniquely effective techniques quickly release fibrotic myofascia.
• Tui Na is the most effective means of treating sports injuries
• Tui Na treats all common chronic conditions such as headaches, migraine, IBS, insomnia, tension, restlessness etc.
• Tui Na treats all conditions that in the West would be treated by osteopaths, chiropractors and physiotherapists plus many that would require drug therapy.

• Advance Diagnosis Methods
• Tongue Diagnosis
• Pulse Diagnosis
• Muscles List the Master Practitioner and Sports injuries
• Orthopaedic Assessment Skills
• Protocols for Assessment of each area
• Diagnosing Back Pain
• Patients Complaining of Lower Back Pain and/or Sciatica
• Diagnosing Problems of the Lower Back
• Diagnosing Problems Originating In The Neck
• Neurological Levels In The Neck
• Arm Sensation Testing – Anterior and Posterior Aspect
• Brachial Plexus – to Arm
• Treatment Techniques
• Treating the Neck and Shoulders
• Treating the Neck in the Sitting Position
• Shoulder - Treatment Choices
• Treating Upper Back and Shoulders – Seated/Prone/ Supine
• Spinal Manipulation
• Lower Back Treatment Choices - Prone/Supine/Seated/Side Position
• Elbow and Forearm
• Hand, Wrist, Finger Manipulations

• Pathological Conditions of the Spleen & Stomach
• Pathological Conditions of the Lung & Large Intestine
• Pathological Conditions of the Kidney & Bladder
• Pathological Conditions of the Liver
• Pathological Conditions of the Heart

• Many advanced techniques not demonstrated in the book or video
• Diagnosis of pathological conditions in the spine that produce pain, numbness and weakness of the limbs.
• Distinguishing between hip joint, sacro-iliac and disc problems in patients suffering from lower back pain and/or sciatica.
• To be able to take a case study using a traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and plan a treatment strategy
• To use treatment techniques in a clinical situation to treat all conditions that respond to Tui Na

16 day course

180 contact hours 200 non-contact hours

Students who have gained the Tui Na Chinese Massage Bodyharmonics massage certification (diploma) can have membership & insurance from the Acupuncture-Acutherapy Council which is a voluntary regulatory body with a rigid code of safe and effective practice