BrainTok
ENESIT

Manual Therapy: History of manual therapy schools · From Bonesetters to Osteopathy and Chiropractic

Traces manual therapy from ancient Egyptian, Greek and Chinese techniques through folk bonesetters to the founding ideas of osteopathy and chiropractic.

For learning, not medical advice: for your own health, ask a doctor or another qualified professional.

Manual Therapy · 25 questions

Try 3 questions

1. Which manual procedure does Egypt's Edwin Smith Papyrus, over 3,500 years old, already describe?

  1. Adjusting the upper neck vertebrae
  2. Massaging the lower back muscles
  3. Reducing a dislocated jaw
Show the answer

Answer: Reducing a dislocated jaw

Among its trauma cases, the papyrus explains how to put a dislocated mandible back in place with the thumbs inside the mouth, a method still recognizable today.

2. Hippocratic texts describe tying a patient to a ladder and dropping it. What was this 'succussion' meant to treat?

  1. Stiffness of the hip joint
  2. A hump or curvature of the spine
  3. Chronic headaches and dizziness
Show the answer

Answer: A hump or curvature of the spine

The sudden jolt was supposed to straighten spinal deformities such as a hump, using the body's own weight as traction.

3. The Hippocratic writers criticized physicians who favored dramatic ladder succussion. What was their complaint?

  1. It was forbidden by temple priests
  2. It was done mainly to impress onlookers
  3. It required too many assistants
Show the answer

Answer: It was done mainly to impress onlookers

The treatise On Joints notes that succussion rarely corrected the deformity and appealed to practitioners who wanted to astonish the crowd.

The rest of the quiz, a few questions at a time

BrainTok asks a few questions from quizzes like these before the apps you choose open, so your screen time turns into learning. For iPhone.

Join the beta

More Physiotherapy quizzes