| A | B |
|---|
| Per Henrik Ling | Father of Swedish Massage |
| James Cyriax | Created cross-fiber friction |
| Tiffany Field | Founded Miami's Touch Research Institute |
| Taylor Brothers | Brought Swedish massage to America |
| Hippocrates | Father of Medicine |
| John Upledger | Craniosacral therapy's founder |
| Eunice Ingham | Reflexology pioneer |
| Johan Mezger | Created the terms effleurage, petrissage and tapotement |
| Hippocratic Oath | Do no harm |
| Qi | Life force energy |
| Touch | Basic need of human beings |
| Massage and baths | Ancient Greek regimen |
| Claudius Galenus (Galen) | Systematized anointing |
| Japan's first therapists | the Blind |
| King Hammurabi | Code of Hammurabi; advocated an "eye for an eye" |
| The Olympics | Gymnastics and massage increased performance |
