1. Carrying on Back
The patient and the practitioner stand back by back.The practitioner hooks the patient’s elbow with his flexed elbow to lift the patient up. Then the patient is asked to relax muscles and lean his head against the practitioner's back as close as possible. The patient’s body is kept in still for a while to relieve the pain caused by the overextension of the spine, and to make use of the patient’s body) weight to pull the spine downward and relieve muscle tension. Then the patient’s body is slipped down slowly until the suffered part contacts the practitioner’s sacro-coccyx joint. Later on, the practitioner 8wm98 the buttocks laterally to make the patient’s body swing in pace (Fig 289). When the patient’s muscles are relaxed, the practitioner makes a sudden motion with his knee extended and his but tocks stuck out to vibrate the patient’s spine, SO that the joint facets are shifted and reverted (Fig 290). This manipulation is applicable to the treatment of facet joint disorder of the lumbar vertebrae and the protrusion of the lumbar intervertebral discs. Click to read Thrombocytosis in TCM.
2. Lateral Carrying on Back
The manipulation of carrying on back can also be manipulated as follows: The practitioner inserts his arm through the contralateral arm and holds the patient’s body in front of the chest, then takes the ilial-crest as fulcrum to lift the body up (Fig 291). Keeping the patient’s body in still for a while,the practitioner makes a sudden buttock motion of swinging so as to restore facet joint.This manipulation is applicable to rectifying the disorder of lumbar facet joint.