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The country in which the first written accounts of therapeutic rubbing (massage) originated

China
The original massage technique

Amma
The sacred Indian practice in which massage is included

Ayur-Veda
The father of Modern Medicine

Hippocrates
Systematic and scientific manipulation of the soft tissues of the body for the purpose of obtaining or maintaining health

Massage
Define: Massage

The Systematic and scientific manipulation of the soft tissues of the body for the purpose of obtaining or maintaining health
The individual whose efforts led primarily to the texts that commonly use French terminology to describe massage

Johann Mezger
The classic scripture of traditional Chinese Medicine

Nei-ching
Scientist who demonstrated that blood circulation is impelled by the beat of the heart through the arteries and veins.

William Harvey
The work generally credited as being the first book in the field of sports medicine

Arte Gymnastica
The father of Swedish massage and physical therapy

Pehr Henrik Ling
Along with duplicated and active, the term that best describes another movement that used ling’s system of medical gymnastics

Passive
Movements performed by a client

Active
When the term massage came into use

Middle 1900’s
The person who first analyzed the phenomenon of muscular contraction

Giovani Borelli
Therapeutic system using movement to overcome discomforts that arise from abnormal conditions

Swedish Gymnastics
component of Ling’s system that blends massage with the science of physiology

Swedish Massage

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intromassage1.txt

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Intro to Massage: Chapter 1

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2010-07-26T14:05:53Z

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