| A | B |
|---|
| 1st pictoral evidence of massage | 15,000 B.C.E. |
| grandparent of massage techniques | Amma |
| classic chinese text includes massage | Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperors's..) |
| holistic medicine in India | Ayurveda |
| father of western medicine | Hippoctrates |
| modern form of Japanese massage | Shiatsu |
| modern form of Chinese massage | Tui Na |
| Hawaiin massage | Lomi Lomi |
| umbrella term - includes many forms of hands-on treatment | bodywork |
| roman physician who compiled De Medicina | Aulus Colnelius Celsus |
| time periord with major advancement of anatomy through dissections | Renaissance |
| father of modern surgery wrote about use of massage | Ambrose Pare |
| father of Swedish Massage | Pehr Henrik Ling |
| physician coined terms effleurage, petrissage, friction, tapotement | Johann Mezger |
| onset of massage being included as part of official medical team in Olympics | 1996 |
| Touch Research Institute in Miami | Tiffany Fields |
| Persian physician wrote Canon of Medicine | Avicenna |
| established foundations of anatomy during Renaissance | Vesalius |
| father of seated massage | David Palmer |
| systematic and scientific manipulation of soft tissue to obtain or maintain health | massage |
| care of entire person (mind/body/spirit) through multiple approaches | holistic |
| deep structural realignment | Rolfing |
| energetic technique that utilizes universal energy | Reiki |
| bodywork on floor in which practitioner facilitates yoga like stretches | Thai massage |
| trager, feldendrais and Alexander Technique | movement therapies |
| Rolfing and neuromuscular therapy (NMT) | structural techniques |
| Reiki and Therapeutic Touch | energetic techniques |
| Craniosacral | Upledger and Sutherland |
| "Awareness Through Movement" + Functional Integration | Feldenkrais |
| use of water for relaxation or rehabilitation | Hydrotherapy |
| massage disappeared | Middle Ages |
