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Have you ever experiencedTwaina?
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Let's talk aboutTwaina, a physicaltherapy.
That is deeply rooted in traditional Chinese medicine known for its ability to boost bloodcirculation, reducepain, and even improvesleep.
Well, this Twaina practice is gaining traction among young people today and it reflects a changing shift inattitude.
This transformation is humorously described as a journey from questioning the elderly to understanding them and eventually becoming who theyare.
Sofirst, what is Twaina this physicaltherapy?
Yeah, I think as yousaid, Twaina basically is quite similar to massage but it really utilizes some more comprehensive techniques such as pushing and pulling and also includetwisting,turning,pushing, and otherthings.
Making greathere, or we massage inhumans, what's going onhere?
It's just a quite complicated and when you experience some like Twaina especially in some professional medicationorganizations, they could also complement it withacupuncture.
And it is believed to be effective to many chronic pains such asbrain, orstrains, and even some digestiveproblems.
And actually there's a race and research from Harvard University showing that doing massage can also be helpful to your health because it really can clear some immune cells and inflammatory factors and also helps your damaged muscles recover faster andstronger.
And I think when talking about Twainamassage, either it's like a irregular or we're not so formal massage when you can enjoy in those spa stores or massage stores along suchstreets.
But also you can also receive this service or massage service in professional hospitals here in China because Twaina massage is actually an essential part of traditional Chinesemedicine.
It can really trace the back to ancient China where people usedto, youknow, touch to alleviate pain and swelling from injuries due to labor orcombat.
So gradually they discovered that certain ways of touching your muscles could relievepain.
So that's how Twaina massage came aboutnowadays.
And as yousaid, it's becoming so popular among younger generations thesedays.
Yeah, right before we turn on themic, Brandon and I we were talking about could this be well for an international audience understand better could Twaina be compared with chiropractic or chiropractice a littlebit.
Chiropractic is just with the back where Twaina sounds a bit more full body and I think it also treats a variety of symptoms so I would compare it more with the sportsmassage, which is what we would call that in South Africa forexample, I mean I had countless sports massages over the years when I was playing sports in high school and university and you know you could use the same techniques that you mentioned here to also treat a variety of injuries or just muscle cramps or warming up before match or you know boosting recoveryafter.
I know that you know sports massages Imean, Christiana Ronaldo forexample, I think he has them before during and after matches and that's why he's still playing at the highest level at almost 40 yearsold.
So this I mean we don't call it this Twaina but you know this and there's also a variety of terms for similar practices all around theworld.
But this form of treatment has been around all over the world for manyyears.
Right, it's part of maybe sports medicine now like sports for a longtime.
Yeah, for manyyears.Yeah, it's notrecent.
Yeah, I remember reading Michael Jordan's biography and thenwell, he busted into the scene in the 1980s and he was sort of experimenting with his personaltraining.
I can't remember his name right now but that guy sold a lot of books and sports supplements assuch.
Okay, giving up on trying to remember his nameanyhow.
So since the 1990s we've seen that sports medicine has evolved so quickly and now you know that's like a typical sort of complementary partof.
So it's really standard for most athletes in most professionalsports.
Yeah, before and after matches inparticular.
Right and the Twaina treatment or this kind of physical therapy might perform similar sort of end results but it comes from a different place and you can trace this back in back to HuangDenei, the inner cannon of the yellowemperor.
Sure if this translation is great because for Chinese people yellow emperor that just doesn't sound right atall.
Butanyhow, this is an ancient Chinese medical text for more than two millennia has it been cited and implemented to a certain extent in traditional Chinesemedicine.
You see that now there's this growing interest in sort of using well taking the traditional Chinese medicine route to approach physicaltherapy,i.e.
Twaina and really enjoying the benefits for youngpeople.
So actually according to iMedia researchdata, one of the main research platforms here in China over90% of white collar workers have experienced a massage services for Twaina in 2021 with only10% of them not having experienced it and over74% of internet users prefer to visit professional Chinese medicine massage clinics when they're looking for Twaina massage and also in Beijing massagehospitals, the number of registered individuals aged 18 to 40 in 2023 is 6.5 times that of 2020 with those around of the age 30 or the post 90s generation emerging as the absolute main force in thistrend.
I think this has been the biggest change is that the actual medicines and procedures and that sort of thing hasn't reallychanged.
The biggest change that I've noticed is that younger people are becoming a lot more concerned about their health and also their physical appearance and just their physical well-being than I experienced when so when I mean when I was 18 I wasn't ever thinking about skincare or the health of my body or anything likethat.
But now like you said between the ages of 18 and 40 people are very concerned with these sorts of things which I think is great but I think that's the newest trend is that younger people are being more aware of what was previously known as sorts of care for the elderly which makes sense because if you start taking care of yourself at a youngerage, you can probably live a longer and betterlife.
And also maybe there is a newfound appreciation to some of these more traditional Chinese practices to approach massage slash physical therapy like what we're talking about here or even like diet or other ways of life and I find that to be fascinating because maybe some people are sort of getting in touch with their cultural heritage but I think for most people they just want to take on something that is easy and accessible and affordable and also good forthem.
Yeah good for theirwell-being.
And I suppose here in China nowadays like people going for a massage that is pretty common and can I just say foot massage in China isfantastic.
If you happen to be a visitor to China I would strongly advise you to you know go for a foot massage after a whole day ofsightseeing.
I tend to foot massage is the wrist my body I'm good but my feet are way too sensitive for feetmassage.
I would end up kicking the massage person and face by accident you know like as areaction.
And in Chinese traditional Chinese medicine it's supposedly said that all of your organs are reflected in the acupuncture points that is in that little area calledyour, what is it called the palm of yourfeet?
I never mind like the bowl like the bowl of your foot that that's part ofit.
Yeah and then the whole foot the bottom of your foot yeah yeah and so like when I went to the to my masseuse and then she will like poke certain points of my foot and then I would like scream and and and cramp and then she will say Oh see that's your spleen it's not working well foryou.
Are you having trouble with your liver thesedays?
See your digestion hasn't been going well and you know in TCM there are like whole swaths of knowledge that goes intothis.
So when doctors also sorts of questions like have you been having kidney problems lady and I'm like hold up let me just check my kidney for aquick.
I'm here for you to see that please like can you inform me if I'm having kidneyproblems.
You see that's really interesting because I actually only tried one foot massage here in China and I really love it and I really want more people especially young people to sort of promote it because when you go to South Eastern Asian countries I mean massage culture is so popular everywhere and there are like big and small massage stores and you can choose you want like a food massage or a whole body massage and it's really it's not I mean it's not only relieving but also you can feel this sort of very traditional culture thing you know from their massage each country have their different massagestyle.
I really want this I mean traditional Chinese medicine massage can really be promoted to more people to let more people understand this sort of techniques and yeah well acupuncture is a TCM right yes so I would say that's probably the most world renowned and well known form of TCM is acupuncture that is all over the world and I've had also with regards to sports injuries and that sort of thing I've had acupuncture many many times and a lot of colleagues and former teammates that I had as well have also hadacupuncture.
So I would say of all the TCM that's probably the most well known outside of China right and what do you think is driving young people to this could it also be that now okay I'm trying to think of like new things that this generation is experiencing and not our predecessors and that is the heavy use oftechnology.
