Bonesetter

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This article is about therapists. For John D. "Bonesetter" Reese, see John D. Reese.


A bonesetter is a practitioner of joint manipulation. Before the advent of chiropractors, osteopaths, and physical therapists, bonesetters were the main providers of this type of treatment.[1] Bonesetters would also reduce joint dislocations and "re-set" bone fractures.

Later years

In Japan, bone-setting is known as sekkotsu. Other "lay" bonesetters still practice in some parts of the world.[2][3]

Author Evelyn Waugh, in his 1934 novel A Handful of Dust mentions the term in the following passage: "If Brenda had to go to London for a day's shopping, hair-cutting, or bone-setting (a recreation she particularly enjoyed), she went on Wednesday, because ..."[4]

See also

References

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  4. ↑ A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh. Back Bay Books,New York, 1999. p.47.


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