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This 5 page paper discusses some aspects of massage therapy, including its history, and how traditional massages differ from those given in America. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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therapy. Massage and the Ancient Cultures The origins of massage are uncertain, because it appears that at least four cultures had words meaning "to touch" or "to press" - meaning
that these four civilizations practiced massage. The four are the Greeks: the word "masso/massein" means "to touch or to handle, also meaning to knead or squeeze"; the Romans give us
the Latin word "massa," which they borrowed from the Greeks and means the same as "masso"; in Arabic the word is "massh" and means "to press softly" and in Sanskrit
the word is "makeh," also meaning "to press softly" (Massage therapy). The actual practice of massage "has its roots in the ancient Chinese, Greek, Roman, Indian and the Egyptian era"
(Massage therapy). In 2,700 B.C. a Chinese book called The yellow emperors classic book of internal medicine recommends "breathing exercises, massage of skin and flesh, and exercises of hands and
feet as the appropriate treatment complete paralysis, chills, and fever" (Massage therapy). Egyptian tomb paintings show the practice; Julius Caesar was "apparently given a daily massage to treat neuralgia";
and massage still remains widely practiced in India (Massage therapy). In the West, he goes back to Hippocrates who wrote, in the 5th Century B.C., that physicians should be experienced
in many things, "but assuredly in rubbing.. for rubbing can bind a joint that is too loose, and loosen a joint that is too rigid" (Massage therapy). Massage in these
early societies was used by their physicians to treat "fatigue, illness and injury based on their basic understanding of how the body functions" (Massage therapy). But it was not used
therapeutically at that time because the ancient cultures didnt know about the circulation of blood and the "therapeutic results a massage can bring about" (Massage therapy). The cultural assumptions that
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