It is a way to alleviate pain and knit together fractured bones using Chinese medicines and physical therapy.
Contrary to Western medicine, Chinese medicine prescribes that no surgery be used to treat bone fractures, sprains or contusions. The objective is to maintain the wholeness of the body.
The bone-setter rubs the affected area of the patient with a healing oil, rubs and holds the injury for 15 to 30 minutes and applies ointment externally.
Bone-setting clinics are mostly found in old districts such as Western District and Kowloon City.
Such clinics traditionally are decorated with tiger and dog models and models of human skeletons.
Healing oil and pills, made of Chinese herbal drugs decades ago, are to be found anywhere in a typical clinic.
People from all walks of life in Hong Kong prefer to visit a bone-setter when they have skeletal problems.
Old people, construction workers, housewives, office workers and children
sometimes have to queue for treatment in such clinics. All they spend
is about $150 per visit. 
