What is massage?
Massage is defined, by Beck (Milady, 2000), as the manual (use of hands) or mechanical (use of machines or apparatus) manipulations of the soft tissues of the body by rubbing, kneading, pressing, rolling, slapping, and like movements for the purpose of improving circulation of the blood, relaxation of the muscles, and other benefits to body systems.
Massage often is the most effective and natural path to obtaining relief from pain. This is because a person can use their hands to rub, touch, or exercise a part of the body to get immediate relief.
Massage is not the new kid on the “medical” block. Massage has been a major part of medicine for at least five thousand years and important in western medical traditions for at least three thousand years. In fact, massage was a major topic in the first medical texts books printed after the discovery of the printing press.
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