Massage therapy has come a long way to being what it is today. Yet, many don’t know about the history that massage therapy has. It’s quite interesting to see how far this has come and from where this has come as well. It originally began in the west, but you can see that it has come farther than that. Let’s look at this history to get a better understanding of just where it has come from. Many people don’t know just how long this has been around. Some know that it has been a while, but we don’t think that people understand just how long that is. Many don’t realize that the first form of massage therapy began in 3000 BC.
The first form of using touch to help a person with an ailment was started in Asia. The scientists here had looked at how much touching a person could do for healing them. They saw the good that it could do and thus began using massage therapy. They found that it had done a great deal in helping to heal a person. As we said before, massage therapy started in one area which would be Asia, from there, it kept moving on. The next area that it traveled to was Egypt where it stuck around for a little while. After that, it made its way to China. The Egyptians are responsible for creating reflexology. Reflexology is where they apply pressure to the parts that are in pain.
The Chinese didn’t change much. They had been using massage for quite some time as it was. The art of massage therapy reached this country in 2700 BC. They already had a keen sense of what massage could do. They knew the healing powers that came with the art of touching. After China, Japan was the next area to get on the bandwagon of massage therapy. It was in 1000BC that this came here. It was established and brought over by monks. The same monks had learned about this when they were doing research in China. From the Japanese, you got shiatsu.
After Japan, it went to Greece. Greece loved this because those who played sports found that it helped them with their muscles. They used this to treat injuries and even physiologists of that time started to see how this could work to better all of man kind who were in pain. There were a lot of areas that were getting into sports. Rome was another that adored their sports. The Romans had elite athletes and therefore, they really delved into using such practices. It went from there straight to Europe which used this for illnesses. From Europe, they of course passed it down to the United States which is normally the trend. Now, more countries are using it which includes Canada. You can now see just how far it has come. It can be a pleasant massage or it can help heal you, it’s up to you. You will find that as the trend of passing this down and using it in a different country continues, they change a few things to the point that they then add things to it to make it a bit different than the rest. You never know what more can happen to this.
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