The article describes phases of the manual therapy method appearance and evolvement in medical practice worldwide, in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. Important problems, which must be solved by manual therapy doctors for providing for further development of the scientifi c and practical bases of manual therapy, are identifi ed.
manual therapy, development history, national medicine
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