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Massage Therapy: Principles and Practice
Chapter 1 Study Guide
1. What is defined as manual manipulation of the soft tissues of the
body for the purpose of establishing and maintaining good health
and promoting wellness?
Message Therapy
2. According to the chapter, what is a generic term used to describe
any therapeutic or personal self-development practice that may
include massage, healing touch, movement, or energetic work?
compression/traction
3. When in history did the term “massage” begin to be used?
Early
1800s
4. The first written records of massage date back to 3000 BC in
which country?
China
5. What is the original massage technique in China and the
precursor to manual and energetic
therapies?
amma
6. What is commonly referred to as the classic scripture of
traditional Chinese medicine?
Hwang ti or Nei Ching
7. What Japanese method is based on Chinese medicine concepts
and uses applied pressure of the
thumbs, elbows, and other angular parts of the body?
shiatsu
8. What method of disease prevention and treatment is based on
the Hindu tradition?
ayurveda
9. The symbol of the medical profession, a snake and staff, can be
traced back to what legendary
Greek physician?
Aulus Cornelius Celsus
10. Who is generally recognized as the father of modern Western
medicine?
Hippocrates of Cos
11. What Flemish physician established the foundations of modern
human anatomy in the West during the European Renaissance?
Ambroise Paré
12. What is generally credited as being the first book in the field of
sports medicine?
Exposition of the Swedish Movement Cure
13. Who was the first known scientist to analyze the phenomenon of
muscular contraction?
Pehr Henrik Ling
14. Who was the first known scientist to demonstrate that blood
circulation is impelled by the beat of
the heart through arteries and veins?
William harvey
15. Who developed the Swedish Movement Cure, which included the
use of massage?
Pehr Henrik Ling
16. What term describes a component of the Ling System?
massage
17. What massage organizations took the first step toward
professionalism by requiring members to
successfully pass a test before receiving a certificate of
competence?
Society of Trained Masseuses
18. What individual is credited with having introduced the French
terms still used to describe
massage techniques (e.g., effleurage, pétrissage, tapotement)?
Johann Mezger
19. In what year did George Henry Taylor and Charles Fayette Taylor
introduce the Swedish
Movement system in the United States?
20. Who wrote the first American textbook on the Swedish
Movement System, in 1860?
21. Who opened the Swedish Health Institute for the Treatment of
Chronic Diseases by Swedish
Movements and Massage, considered the first massage school in the
United States, in 1883?
22. Who helped popularize massage therapy in the United States
during the modern era by writing
numerous books and publishing articles about massage in his
magazine, Good Health?
23. What Californian educational institution influenced the
development and popularization of
massage therapy, altering how we view massage therapy today?
24. What was the original name of the American Massage Therapy
Association?
25. When was the American Massage and Therapy Association
founded?
26. When was Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals
founded?
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