Talk:Bodywork (alternative medicine)

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[edit] Bodywork and Massage Therapy

I belive there should be a differentiation between bodywork and massage therapy. All massage therapy is bodywork, but not all bodywork is massage therapy (e.g. Breema). Perklund 03:05, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

I agree. Bodywork is a very general term and can refer to Pilates, Yoga, and personal training to name a few. --Kirien 19:20, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I also agree. Massage therapy certainly falls under the heading of bodywork, but bodywork and massage therapy are in no way the same, and should not be combined in one article. massage therapy should redirect to massage, and this article should be re-writen. Akromian 08:40, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

Agree. Bodywork is often used to include body-centred psychotherapy - see http://www.entelia.de/, http://www.bodyworkers.org.uk/ http://www.psychocorporalintegration.info/ for instance. Tim Brown

[edit] bodywork or body work

is bodywork two words? is it one word? could it acceptably be both? should the wikipedia address this?

The name of this article comes directly from page 240 of one of Andrew Weil's books.

Andrew Weil, M.D. Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself. Fawcett Columbine, The Ballantine Publishing Group, New York, 1996.

The name of this article is correctly spelled. John Gohde 01:40, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

With all due respect to Dr. Weil, the spelling doesn't mirror current usage.

While both spellings are used (as they are in the article itself), spelling it as one word is by far the more common usage.

It is listed as one word in the American Heritage Dictionary: bodywork. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. (accessed: February 11, 2007) and the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary, Bloomsbury Publishin Plc, 2001.

Additionally, the Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals, the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, the Worlwide Aquatic Bodywork Association, and Esalen Massage and Bodywork Association are more appropriate references, they are leading organizations in the field.

I suspect this is a similar case to using either "data base" or "database"; the former was the initial usage, the latter is the present-day common usage, and the Wikipedia article is titled "Database".

On the basis of all of the above, I'll move the page to "Bodywork (alternative medicine)".—Chidom ^talk  21:17, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] removed commercial link

There was a link to a commercial site which I erased. Makana Chai 01:30, 5 August 2006 (UTC)