The ancient Chinese recommended “massage of the skin and muscles”. Today, throughout China, medical massage therapy is widely practiced and taught in hospital and medical schools, and is an essential part of primary healthcare, and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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In the United States, massage gained popularity in the middle part of the 19th century. During the 1930s and 1940s massage’s influence declined as a result of the new directions that western medicine was taking at the time, which has continued through modern times.
It’s interesting to note that not until the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, was massage therapy, or medical massage offered as a core medical service for the first time. This is in spite of the fact that sports massage was considered a necessity for the Olympic Athletes in ancient Greek and Roman times.
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