Massage Theory And Practice Ch 1

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Ritualistic or religious activity of rubbing oil into the skin

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Anointing

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Treatment that involves manipulation of the client's body as a way to maintain or improve health

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Bodywork

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Activity at ancient gymnasiums that included exercise, massage, and baths

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Gymnastics

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Manual therapy involving pressure applied with the hands (term started by the french explorers on the 1700s)

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Massage

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Male person who administers massage

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Masseur

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Female person who administers massage

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Masseuse

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Therapist applies pressure or manipulation to physically change the shape or condition of the client's tissues

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Mechanical effects

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Combined result of mechanical and reflex effects on the whole body

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Metabolic effects

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A collection of manual therapies that tends to use similar applications of movement or massage strokes to reach a similar goal

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Modality

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American version of Ling's movement system

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Movement Cure

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Therapist stimulates the client's nervous system to change the shape or condition of the tissue in areas that were addressed as well as other, related areas

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Reflex effects

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A theraputic movement system developed by Per Henrik Ling

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Swedish gymnastics

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Europe's version of Ling's movement system

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Swedish movements

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A dynamic, changing energy force that runs through the whole body, supplying and being supplied by body processes and activities

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Qi

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Four ancient river valley civilizations that used massage

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Mesopotamia - The Tigris and Euphrates river valleys
Egypt - The Nile river valley
China - The Yellow river valley
India - The Indus and Ganges river valleys

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The Yellow Emperor's classic of internal medicine; one of the oldest medical references in existance

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Nei Ching

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Chinese document of disputable age that includes information on the use of medicinal plants, controlled breathing, and a system of exercises and positions for healthcare

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Cong Fou

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Its main topics include the theory of five phases and the balance of yin and yang

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Nei Ching

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The site of the largest ancient river valley civilization discovered in the 20th century

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Indus River

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Four scriptual texts written over 5000 years ago

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Vedas
Rik Veda
Sama Veda
Yajur Veda
Atharva Veda

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Babylonian King Hammurabi established this set of laws which includes the oldest code of medical ethics

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Code of Hammurabi

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Evidence of massage being used for healthcare in ancient Mesopotamia

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Clay tablets
Paintings on the walls of tombs

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Egyptian text written around 1800 BCE that focuses on gynecological matters

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Kahun Papyrus

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Queen that included massage as treatment for health and healing as early as 4000 BCE

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Queen Isis

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Tomb of the Physician dated around 2350 BCE

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Tomb of Ankhmahor

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"Father of Medicine" who established medicine as a science and rejected the theory of health and medicine as the work of magic and gods

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Hippocrates

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A series of 60 treatises discussing medicine and medical principles

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Hippocratic Corpus

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A statement in which physicians swear to respect, honor, and share knowledge with their teachers, treat their patients to the best of their ability and do so only with good intentions

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Hippocratic Oath

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Greek physician who settled in Rome and promoted diet, exercise, bathing, and massage;theory based on atoms

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Asclepiades of Bithynia

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Prominent figure in ancient Roman medicine; wrote a series of eight texts called De Medicina

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Aulus Cornelius Celsus

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Possibly the most famous of Greek physicians in Rome; wrote Hygiene

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Claudius Galenus