There are twelve kinds of massage techniques. Based on the traditional view that muscle contracture is easy to relax, muscle weakness is easy to strengthen, muscle relaxation is easy to reconcile, muscle contraction is easy to grow, and muscle deficiency is easy to strengthen, static massage techniques with "regulating body", "regulating qi" and "regulating heart" as the main exercise methods are adopted. Through clinical and experimental research, massage manipulation of Yijinjing can effectively improve cardiopulmonary function and protect cardiovascular health.

Among them, the twelve styles are Wei Tuo's first, second and third styles, star-picking and bucket-changing, Kyubi no Youko's dragging style, claw-flashing style, nine-ghost sword-drawing style, three-dish floor-standing style, Qinglong claw-probing style, crouching tiger pouncing on food, bow-pulling style and tail-falling style.

At present, there are many researches on Yijinjing, and the schools are different or slightly different. But in a word, the practice of "Fitness Qigong Yijinjing" Qigong can obviously improve the mental agility, movement flexibility, short-term memory and attention quality of the elderly, and can play a role in delaying the mental decline of middle-aged and elderly people.