07-15-2010, 07:12 AM | #1 |
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Massage Therapy
Esoteric Medicine Per/H can include massage. Would an optional specialisation EM (Massage Therapy) be Per/A or should it be DX or IQ or even a whole new ball-game?
Game use: military uses extensively enhanced humans and bioroids. Enhanced muscle requires maintenance. Injuries need treatment that First Aid alone does not apply to. Massage Therapy enhances First Aid. Considering using Hobby Skill (Yoga) for the maintenance factor. I hadn't thought much about how this would translate until now: all these hard-core Marines doing a Greet the Dawn and giving each other rub-downsLOL Oh, and a mad geneticist rewired the gene-pool, altered sex-ratio &, by necessity, roles, so think Ramirez not Drake. Actually, in terms of the bioroids, think Mystique without the chameleon power but built like Wolverine.
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07-15-2010, 07:34 AM | #2 | |
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Re: Massage Therapy
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While we're on the subject...how would Professional Skill (Physical Therapist) differ from Professional Skill (Occupational Therapist)? Or would it? |
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07-15-2010, 07:48 AM | #3 |
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Re: Massage Therapy
Put in a humorous way:
OccTher's will teach a stroked person how to dress himself, make a cup of tea and get his sorry butt out to work. Rehabilitation to Life. PhysTher will kick his ass until he wishes he was at work. Repair and maintenance.* TQ, ProSkill (PhysTher) IQ/A. Sounds good. Admittedly, too good:) - like a seriously useful life-skill. That EM(MT) Per/A is temptingly useless sounding. 1cp worth of color-skill as opposed too, I could make a living doing this for 16cp. But it is the right sounding skill. *PS strokes are the main killer in my family. I've had a microstroke, my sister has had multiple, my mother regularly gets temporary blood flow interruptions, my nephew had a brain aneurism - he hated OccTher but it did teach him per above.
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07-15-2010, 08:49 AM | #4 |
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Re: Massage Therapy
Well, I'm afraid once again this translates as "wait a few months," but GURPS Low-Tech has 540 words on massage, lotions, and salves, plus another section on acupuncture and moxibustion. For your purposes the payoff line is probably "For effective massage, roll vs. Professional Skill (Masseur) or a suitable form of Esoteric Medicine." Probably you wouldn't make massage alone into a form of Esoteric Medicine, but embed it in some larger system of therapeutic practice.
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07-15-2010, 01:00 PM | #5 |
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Re: Massage Therapy
I'm glad you began the reply with "I'm afraid".
The lo-tech has the answer answer is grating on my nerves. I'd love a moderator to pass a ruling that no further mention of lo-tech is permitted, after all, at the rate of info bleed, I'll not need to bother buying it - all the good bits will be on the forum... However, it is nice to know that ProSkill (Masseur) is an IQ(?)/A skill.
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07-15-2010, 02:23 PM | #6 |
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Re: Massage Therapy
I will try to remember that you don't like getting advance looks at bits of Low-Tech, and not offer you any more, even when they provide solutions to your rules problems.
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07-15-2010, 06:55 PM | #7 | |
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Personally I've been using an additional medical skill Physiotherapy/TL to cover stuff like diet, massage, heat treatments, and exercise programs. Historically this is respectable medicine at TL2, falls out of favor around TL5, leaving it to quacks, home economics teachers, and sports coaches, and gets sort of respectable again around TL7, but that mostly just means it doesn't see the same surge in relative effectiveness Physician does at TL5.
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07-15-2010, 11:06 PM | #8 | |
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Of course, what'd solve it all is me keeping quiet about grinding my teeth every time I read "the answers are in lo-tech"LOL and not posting negative replies is good advice for all:)
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