Chinese Therapy Balls – Hollow Silver with Chimes
Uses: Flexibility, Limberness, Stress Relief
Chinese Therapy Balls, also commonly known as Baoding Balls, Chinese Exercise Balls, Chinese Therapy Balls, Chinese Stress Balls, and Chinese Health Balls originated in Baoding, China. a small town in the Heibei province, during the Ming Dynasty. They are great for musicians, computer users, athletes, magicians, gamers, surgeons and anybody else who uses their hands extensively. The Chinese Thearapy Balls are designed to help relieve stress while building finger dexterity and wrist and forearm strength.
Baoding balls are usually hollow and made from chrome-plated steel, with most containing a chime. People sometimes call these chime balls or harmony balls. You will find that Baoding Balls can come with many designs crafted onto them. The cloisonne balls usually have hand made designs which depict symbols or characters related to harmony, health, and other positive forces.
Baoding balls are usually used for exercise and meditation, but are also good when employed for medical reasons. To use them for exercise, place two Baoding balls within your palm then rotate them clockwise and counterclockwise. Gravity will help you keep on controlling the balls. There are many exercises possible. One is trying to not to let the balls touch one another during manipulation, as advanced users do. Such users of Baoding balls can frequently use more than two balls at one time. Manipulating the balls in your hand not only exercises hand muscles, but forearm and shoulder muscles as well.
Alternative Medicine advocates believe that the balls are beneficial for medical reasons when they touch pressure points or acupuncture points found all over the hand. A practitioner of western medicine would find it hard to believe that such balls have health benefits, but it helps to realize that practitioners of Chinese medicine believe that all bodily systems are linked to one another. Chinese medicine advocates believe one should not just treat symptoms but rather should examine the root cause of the symptoms. In connection, Baoding balls could be prescribed by a Chinese doctor with a patient whose internal energy or Qi has stagnated and thus, caused the problems for the patient.
The balls follow certain principles involving touching the meridians (just like in acupuncture or shiatsu massage). The meridians (known as Jingluo in Chinese traditional medical theory) act as channels or pathways via which Qi (vital energy within each person) moves throughout the body. These Jingluo meridians also feature the acupuncture points. Hence, touching each meridian will produce health benefits. Your ten fingers are interconnected with the human cranial nerve, as well as important human organs such as the intestines, stomach, gallbladder, kidneys, lungs, spleen, liver and heart. Thus, when the meridians are stimulated, there is improved circulation of vital energy and blood in our bodies.
Chinese practitioners claim that muscles remain nimble, bones are strengthened and the mind kept sober through prolonged usage of the health balls. Other benefits are blood circulates more freely, and different chronic diseases such as hypertension are kept from developing. In time (in terms of many years of practicing Baoding balls use) the brain becomes healthier and you will notice that your intelligence and memory improves. Furthermore, fatigue goes away, your worries disappear, stress is reduced, and in the end your life is extended.
Choosing a size: start with the size that’s most comfortable for you.
サイズを大きくして、手の柔軟性と可動域を増やします。サイズを小さくして協調性を高めます。セラピストのメモ：怪我後の可動域を改善するために使用する場合は、さまざまなサイズを使用して改善を達成します。伸びを改善するには、より大きなボールを使用します。屈曲を改善するには、小さいボールを使用します。中実のボールは、屈曲が制限されている人にとって、より自然な動きのパターンを促進することができます。また、重量を増し、強度を高めることができます。
詳細：
歴史：中国の鉄球は、中国の保定市の「3つの宝物」の1つとして長い間有名です。明代（1368-1644）に製造された鉄球は、熟練した中国の職人によって古くから改良されてきました。元々、これらの球は単純な中実の円筒形の物体でしたが、その後、職人は中空の球を設計し、高い音を出す板を挿入し始めましたこれらの軽いボールは扱いやすく、音楽的なトーンは、ボールを使って運動することで生じるリラックスプロセスに貢献します。
方向：ボールを手に置き、どちらかで回転させます。時計回りまたは反時計回りの方向。この演習では、手のすべてのポイントを一定の動きに保ちます。指と前腕の筋肉が収縮し、調和してリラックスします。初心者は、小さいサイズのボールを選択し、時間の経過とともに増加する必要があります。習熟度が上がるにつれて、ボールのサイズが大きくなります。最終的には、両手を交互にまたは同時に運動させることができ、片手で3つまたは4つのボールを使用することもできます。
メンテナンス：ボールは金属製であるため、乾いた清潔な状態に保つ必要があります。ボールは丈夫で耐久性がありますが、所有者はボールを互いに激しくぶつけたり、他の固い物体や表面にぶつけたりしないようにする必要があります。長期間使用しない場合は、メンテナンスや保存のためにボールにワックスやグリースを塗ることをお勧めします。