History of Massage...

The decision of anatomical and physiological problems of a healthy person, different disease easier to prevent than to cure. Restoring health and return patients to normal life and vitality, the importance given to physiotherapy. Massage is the only way to physiotherapy, which is scientifically sound, the most appropriate, proven long-term practice and applied in various fields of medicine. One way or another, but massage firmly entered our lives, and is an integral part of both the process of treatment of many diseases, and important of massage.
The history of massage
date of origin of massage can not be accurately determined, as well as impossible to give preference to those or other people in the authorship of his invention. Already in the VI century BC in China there were medical-gymnastic schools for the training of physicians, where he taught massage. In ancient China it was used to relieve fatigue, muscle cramps, rheumatic pains, sprains, etc. By doing massage, Chinese rubbed his hands the whole body, producing a special spasms in the joints, and squeezing your muscles. Hieroglyphic inscriptions on sarcophagi and pyramids and papyrus found in Egypt, indicate that for 4000 years BC, the ancient Assyrians, Persians, Egyptians are not only aware of the massage, but also used it for therapeutic purposes. Also, the explicit mention of the massage can be traced in the history of ancient Greece, which many researchers believe ancestor of sports massage. Here's what he wrote Hippocrates (460-377 years. BC)

for the treatment of sprains: "In many things a doctor should be experienced, not least in the massage, because massage can relate too lax joints and soften the joints very tight." Friction causes contraction or relaxation of tissues, leading to the completeness or loss of weight, soft, gentle and moderate friction thickens the tissue and dry, and frequent friction pulls them ". In the "Odyssey" of Homer is mentioned about how Circe in the bath rubbing ointments and Odyssey umaschivala oils, and that women kneaded the body of soldiers before a battle. In ancient Rome, the classification of massage proslezhivetsya in the works Asclepiades. In the East scholar Avicenna (Ibn Sina) in his writings "Canon of Medicine" and "Book of Healing" describes massage invigorating, relaxing, preparatory, recovery ... Not far behind other nations, ancient Slavic tribes. Greater recognition they enjoy swimming in the baths with a pat of the body of oak with birch twigs and grindings.

References in manuscripts of the fact that often one tribe paid tribute to another with birch twigs, shows that they were the essentials, and the procedure of the ancient Slavs was called "hvoschevanie. In addition to this procedure rubbed various ointments prepared on the basis of various roots and herbs.

How useful massage?
It seems that today nearly everyone knows what a massage. However, according to a survey conducted recently by me, people who suffer from different disorders of the spine, only 27% have resorted to cure or reduce the unpleasant symptoms by using massage, 73% of those who received massage reported that this method helped them - at least to alleviate the suffering. However, it is clear that the majority of clients, using massage as a healing technique did not even think of.

All this once again proves that with the help of massage we will use our "inner pharmacy".

Massage helps us to cope with the problems of health without drugs, using its own reserves of the organism.