Historical, Cultural and Plilosophical

Massage is said to be the oldest and simplist form of medical care, practised in the east beginning as early as 3,000 B.C. .Soon in the 16th century massage was praised by Dr Ambroise Para. In the 19th century was further developed by a Swedish doctor, poet, and educator named Per Henrik Ling.
Eastern Cultures such as Japaneese, Chineese and indians traditionally focus on the flow of energy around the body and have a holistic view on massage as oppossed to the western cultures they believe that pain is a disease and pain were caused by demons and imabalance of humours in the body.

Hippocrates
Hipocrates(460-375BC) was a greek physician described as the 'father of modern medicine'. Hippocrates is also the aurthor of numerous of books called the 'Corpus Hippocraticum' he is also responsible for the introduction of the friction stoke.


Galen
Galan(130-200AD)ws a roman physician who became a follower of Hippocrates practices, we was the first to medically associate anatomical terms with physiology.

Ling
Ling(1776-1839)was a swedish phisiologist and gymnastics instructor from this he developed a system of medical gymnastics known as the 'The Swedish Massage Cure' He blendid massage with with physiology principals to explain the effects of exersise and massage.

Metzger
Metzger(1839-1909) was a Dutch physician,who made massage a fundamental component of physical rehabilitation.She is also responsible for naming the massage strokes effluerage, pettrisage and tapotment.

Kellogg
Kellogg(1852-1943) was a physician and food pioneer who wrote numerous books and articles on massage

Vodder
Vodder(1930) was a danish physiotherapist who developed manual lymph drainage, the Husband and wife studied lymph drainage and in 1936 introduced it to Paris, france.

Travell
Travell(1896-1986) developed trigger point therapy

A comparison of maori massage with western massage
Maori massage(miri miri & romi romi) is traditional healing which has been around for years focusing on treating the mind, body and soul

Miri Miri- healing process that work all four dimensions physical,spiritual, family and mental health.

Romi Romi- Deep tissue work using elbows, hands, knees, feet,raakau (stick / wood), kohatu /toka(stones), moana (seawater).

Massage Scandles 1800
In the 1880's nurses and non-medically-trained women were trained to perform massage.In England some unethical people opened their supposed massage training schools. They encouraged poor women to the schools, offering them free training in exchange for future employment in the school clinics. These clinics turned out to be a front for houses of prostitution soon after massage was hugely frowned apon and damaged the image of massage.

The Development of professional Massage in New Zealand
The Massage institute of new zealand was foundered in 1985 by Bill Wareham his focus being on Education of massage therapists, Standards of massage teachers,Annual conferences for skill development.
In 1989 Jim Sanford established NZATMP. He saw the need for a professional association for therapeutic massage practitioners in New Zealand.

Contempory Massage
The massage therapy industry has grown significantly with between $4 and $6 billion dollars spent on it world wide in a year. Education opportunities are also developing to enable more and more people to train as qualified massage therapists and many more areas in massage therapy is being developed such as hot stones, lymphatic drainage, trigger point and soon.

Philosophical approaces to massage(mind body and soul)
This very much refers to the eastern and maori cultures of massage. These cultures look at massage in a more holistic view and believe that they are all inter connected. Western Cultures have quiet the opposite View they see have a more scientific view.

References
McQuillan, D. (2009). Fundamentals of Massage. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago Polytechnic.

Salvo, S. (2003) Massage Therapy: Principles and Practice (3rd ed.). St Louis: Mosby.

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