Books about
Pediatric Massage & Tui Na for Kids

1. Pediatric Massage Therapy (2004-03)
2. Chinese Pediatric Massage: A Practitioner's Guide (2000)
3. Chinese Massage For Infants And Children: Traditional Techniques for Alleviating Common Childhood Conditions (1999)
4. Pediatric Massage: For the Child with Special Needs (2000)
5. Tui Na Massage for a Healthier, Brighter Child (2000)
6. Essentials of Traditional Chinese Pediatrics (1996)
7. Chinese Pediatric Massage Therapy: A Parent's and Practitioner's Guide to the Treatment and Prevention of Childhood Disease (1999)
8. Infantile Tuina Therapy: Traditional Chinese Therapeutic Exercises and Techniques (1989)
9. Massage for Healthier Children (1992)

Pediatric Massage Therapy
by Marybetts Sinclair

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Book Description
This book provides a complete overview of the concepts and techniques that massage therapists, physical or occupational therapists, and other healthcare professionals need to know in order to perform manual therapy on children, especially those with disabilities. The author fully covers the applications of massage therapy for children ages 2 to 18.

Pediatric Massage Therapy, Second Edition is well written, well researched, and expertly illustrated to provide a clear, demonstrative guide to pediatric massage. Topics include massage in healthy emotional development, managing psychological stress, physical therapy, and home healthcare. Real-life examples and anecdotes from hands-on therapists help readers relate to specific applications.
-- Copyright © 2004 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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Chinese Pediatric Massage: A Practitioner's Guide
by Kyle Cline, Kyle, LMT Cline

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* A leading practitioner of Chinese medicine provides Western therapists with a comprehensive, illustrated handbook for the noninvasive treatment of childhood conditions. * Provides alternatives to Western medicine that are more tolerable to children and better for their long-term health. * With over 200 drawings and photographs to guide practitioners through the massage treatments in the text. * A valuable addition to the repertoire of any health practitioner.
A noninvasive alternative to conventional Western medicine, Chinese pediatric massage provides practitioners with greater flexibility in choosing a successful course of treatment to improve the health and energy of children without overwhelming their systems. Chinese pediatric massage has fewer side effects than other forms of treatment, making it more tolerable for children, easier on their parents, and more effective in improving the patient's long-term health.

This clearly illustrated guide is designed to give all health-care providers--massage therapists, homeopathic and allopathic practitioners, and bodyworkers--who know the general concepts of traditional Chinese medicine with the tools and knowledge they need to successfully use Chinese pediatric massage in treating their patients. Effective on children from birth through preadolescence, Chinese pediatric massage is a valuable therapeutic addition to the repertoire of any practitioner. It considers how a child's energetic framework differs from that of an adult, and accounts for these physiological and anatomical differences through assessment, point locations, and treatment.

About the Author
Kyle Cline, LMT, studied traditional Chinese medicine at colleges and hospitals throughout Asia, including the Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and has served as a faculty member at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine for five years. The author of Chinese Massage for Infants and Children, he also has a private practice in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches and specializes in bodywork and herbalism.

Reader Reviews
Great for TCM Students, December 19, 2002
Reviewer: Greg Shim from CA United States
I've found this book an excellent reference for xiao har tui na (pediatric massage), however, it lacks cohesiveness between treatments and formulas. The formulas are in the back of the book, and they're in English (rather than Chinese). The points, too, are in English, making it somewhat difficult for students, like myself, who know the Chinese names. Overall, I highly recommend this book. Maybe the next edition will bring the treatments and formulas together (and in Chinese first, too - after all, it _is_ Chinese medicine).

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Chinese Massage For Infants And Children: Traditional Techniques for Alleviating Colic, Colds, Earaches, and Other Common Childhood Conditions
by Kyle Cline, LMT

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A leading practitioner of Chinese medicine provides a parents' handbook of simple massage plans that can alleviate most common childhood ailments.
Effective for colic, bedwetting, asthma, colds, coughs, chicken pox, teething, earache, and other conditions.

Easy-to-use workbook format with 22 illustrated massage plans and step-by-step instruction allows parents to become active caregivers for their children.

For over one thousand years the Chinese have brought comfort, relief, and well-being...

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Pediatric Massage: For the Child with Special Needs
by Kathy Fleming Drehobl, Mary Gengler Fuhr

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Therapists and caregivers always are looking for new techniques for use with children with special needs. Typically, there are concerns with what are the benefits of massage, how to position the child, which strokes to start with on a child, what conditions promote massage, and what is the latest research on massage. Kathy Drehobl and Mary Fuhr address these concerns in "Pediatric Massage-Revised." They provide a holistic approach to massage for children with special needs. Massage offers many benefits to children with special needs. These include: enhancing parent/child attachment and bonding; increasing parental confidence; deepening respiration; improving blood and lymphatic circulation; enhancing awareness of body parts through visual, tactile, and proprioceptive input; reducing hypersensitivity to tactile input; increasing the quality and quantity of phonation and vocalization; enhancing gastrointestinal function; and providing general relaxation for the caregiver and child. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Tui Na Massage for a Healthier, Brighter Child
by Maria Mercati

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Reader Review
Helpful techniques for health-conscious parents, April 21, 2001
Reviewer: jwelkin (see more about me at Amazon.com) from Lago Vista TX
This book presents massage techniques for a variety of common childhood complaints (colic, teething, cough, and so forth) and I was amazed to find something so simple to be so effective! As a society, we tend to run to the medicine cabinet for every little thing that's not right, and our "experts" (and advertisers) reinforce that; but Ms. Mercati offers simple, easy-to-implement suggestions that seem to provide relief of common ailments (at least for my kids). The book is laid out well and information is easily accessible, with clear illustrations and well-written instructions. This would even make a nice baby shower present for a new mom.

A parent's loving touch is healing in and of itself, but this book makes yours more so.

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Essentials of Traditional Chinese Pediatrics
by Cao Jiming, su Xinming, Cao Junqi

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Book Description
Essentials of Traditional Chinese Pediatrics systematically expounds the basic knowledge of traditional Chinese pediatrics, and the differentiation of syndromes and treatment of children's diseases. Chinese herbal medicine is the main method of treatment. In order to enhance the therapeutic effects, acupuncture and Chinese massage therapy are also introduced according to actual conditions.
This book consists of two parts, namely, "Basic Knowledge of Traditional Chinese Pediatrics" and "Treatment of Diseases." There is an appendix in which Chinese massage therapy for children is introduced. An index of the selected recipes and patent medicines is arranged at the end of the book.

Pediatricians of both Chinese and Western medicine, and acupuncture and massage practitioners will find this book a highly useful reference text.

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Chinese Pediatric Massage Therapy: A Parent's and Practitioner's Guide to the Treatment and Prevention of Childhood Disease
by Fan Ya-Li, Ya-Li Fan, Bob Flaws (Editor)

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From the Back Cover
Chinese remedial infant massage or xiao er tui na is a safe, non-invasive, low cost, and extremely effective therapy for the treatment of a wide variety of childhood ailments. Unlike Western infant massage, Chinese infant massage uses very specific protocols or treatments for specific ailments. Most common childhood complaints respond in only one or two treatments.

Table of Contents
The Basic Theory of Chinese
Pediatric Massage
Common Manipulations in Pediatric Tui Na
Diarrhea
Abdominal Pain
Vomiting
Lack of Appetite
Constipation
Excessive Drooling
Common Cold
Cough
Fever
Bedwetting
Night Crying
General Infant Massage for a Healthy Baby
Concluding Remarks
Index

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Infantile Tuina Therapy: Traditional Chinese Therapeutic Exercises and Techniques
by Luan Changye

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Tuina therapy used to be called massage in ancient times; it has a long history in China and a collection of many monographs. The therapy is safe, economical, simple, effective, painless and without side effects, thus widely accepted. Of particular importance is that infantile tuina therapy relieves not only the infant's fears of injection and orally administered drugs but also parents' anxiety.
Drawing on thirty-some years of clinical experience and the relevant literature, Luan Changye, a tuina specialist, has compiled Infantile Tuina Therapy. The book covers the commonly used manipulations and the therapeutic points and indications in infantile tuina. It is a comprehensive monograph on infantile tuina therapy with substantial content and practical use.

The 60,000 word book has more than a hundred illustrations.

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Massage for Healthier Children
by Marybetts Sinclair, Richard Robertson

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