HISTORY OF MASSAGE THERAPY

Massage Therapy dates back thousands of years. Hippocrates defined medicine as “the art of rubbing.” In the 1850’s, two American physicians who had studied in Sweden introduced Massage Therapy in the United States, where it became popular and was promoted for a variety of health purposes.

The benefits of stimulating the feet for healing purposes were known to our ancestors all over the world. Many cultures directly connected the health of the body to the feet. In ancient Asian cultures, the belief was that the meridians began or ended on all of the toes and fingers and demonstrated the important energetic connection to the reflexes of the hands and feet.