Massage Theory and Practice Ch 1
Terms
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- Ritualistic or religious activity of rubbing oil into the skin
- Anointing
- Treatment that involves manipulation of the client's body as a way to maintain or improve health
- Bodywork
- Activity at ancient gymnasiums that included exercise, massage, and baths
- Gymnastics
- Manual therapy involving pressure applied with the hands (term started by the french explorers on the 1700s)
- Massage
- Male person who administers massage
- Masseur
- Female person who administers massage
- Masseuse
- Therapist applies pressure or manipulation to physically change the shape or condition of the client's tissues
- Mechanical effects
- Combined result of mechanical and reflex effects on the whole body
- Metabolic effects
- A collection of manual therapies that tends to use similar applications of movement or massage strokes to reach a similar goal
- Modality
- American version of Ling's movement system
- Movement Cure
- Therapist stimulates the client's nervous system to change the shape or condition of the tissue in areas that were addressed as well as other, related areas
- Reflex effects
- A theraputic movement system developed by Per Henrik Ling
- Swedish gymnastics
- Europe's version of Ling's movement system
- Swedish movements
- A dynamic, changing energy force that runs through the whole body, supplying and being supplied by body processes and activities
- Qi
- Four ancient river valley civilizations that used massage
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Mesopotamia - The Tigris and Euphrates river valleys
Egypt - The Nile river valley
China - The Yellow river valley
India - The Indus and Ganges river valleys - The Yellow Emperor's classic of internal medicine; one of the oldest medical references in existance
- Nei Ching
- Chinese document of disputable age that includes information on the use of medicinal plants, controlled breathing, and a system of exercises and positions for healthcare
- Cong Fou
- Its main topics include the theory of five phases and the balance of yin and yang
- Nei Ching
- The site of the largest ancient river valley civilization discovered in the 20th century
- Indus River
- Four scriptual texts written over 5000 years ago
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Vedas
Rik Veda
Sama Veda
Yajur Veda
Atharva Veda - Babylonian King Hammurabi established this set of laws which includes the oldest code of medical ethics
- Code of Hammurabi
- Evidence of massage being used for healthcare in ancient Mesopotamia
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Clay tablets
Paintings on the walls of tombs - Egyptian text written around 1800 BCE that focuses on gynecological matters
- Kahun Papyrus
- Queen that included massage as treatment for health and healing as early as 4000 BCE
- Queen Isis
- Tomb of the Physician dated around 2350 BCE
- Tomb of Ankhmahor
- "Father of Medicine" who established medicine as a science and rejected the theory of health and medicine as the work of magic and gods
- Hippocrates
- A series of 60 treatises discussing medicine and medical principles
- Hippocratic Corpus
- A statement in which physicians swear to respect, honor, and share knowledge with their teachers, treat their patients to the best of their ability and do so only with good intentions
- Hippocratic Oath
- Greek physician who settled in Rome and promoted diet, exercise, bathing, and massage;theory based on atoms
- Asclepiades of Bithynia
- Prominent figure in ancient Roman medicine; wrote a series of eight texts called De Medicina
- Aulus Cornelius Celsus
- Possibly the most famous of Greek physicians in Rome; wrote Hygiene
- Claudius Galenus