The History of Massage

The history of massage dates back to thousands of years ago. From prehistoric times, before written words, 15,000 BCE drawings depict what appears to be massage therapy techniques being used after battle scenes.The use of massage is well recorded in several Ancient cultures such as China as it is seen in the Nei Chang text, in India as it’s in the Ayurvedic texts the Samahita, onto Japan, Egypt, Greece and Rome with Hippocrates the father of western medicine and the most famous physician Galen who wrote extensively of massage and medicine, Because of Galen Massage as survived the fall of Rome. Massage has always been fought for, for thousands of years especially in the early 1900s when nurses paved the way for massage therapist when doctors seemed to dismiss the Art, they believed that professional therapeutic touch healed people.