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Traditional Thai Massage
Revival Movement

     In 1983, an civil society alliance  2) to strengthen the competency, ethics
led by Drug Study Group, Health and      and role of Thai and folk massage
Development Foundation, Folk Doctor      healers through learning exchanges and
Foundation, and traditional doctor       forming organizations for development
associations joined forces with state    of Traditional Thai massage in order to
agencies concerned to launch Thai        regain social and legal acceptance 3) to
Massage Revival Project (TMR) with the   systematize and develop the knowledge
following objectives: 1) to encourage    of Nuad Thai (at the professional level)
Thai people to use Traditional Thai      according to appropriate academic
massage for relieving muscle aches       standards. The achievements of this
and stiffness and promoting health       project are as follows:
for themselves and their closed ones

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