The so-called "lifting manipulations" refer to those movements in which the distal part of the patient’s body or limb is held by the practitioner while theoximal part is kept steady by the body's weight and static inertial force, and then a brief and sudden lifting motion is done, and thus the joint facets are separated. Compared with pul1ing-streching manipulations, a brief movement is done in the former while constant force is delivered in the later. Though the two categories both use the force among the long autodial axis of the body, their acting courses are different. The lifting manipulations can be illustrated with the (Fig 298). Click to read Syphilis in TCM.