Massage has arisen in an extreme antiquity. The word "massage" occurs from the Greek word and means to knead, мять, to stroke. Massage as a method of treatment was applied already in the third millennium up to н. э. In China, then Japan, India, Greece, Rome. Records about massage appear at arabs.
From time immemorial the description of medical procedures is has reached us акупунктуры, акупрессуры, pressings on the certain points also.
Monuments of an antiquity, such as the kept alabaster bas-reliefs, papyruses on which various massage manipulations are represented, testify, that assyrians, Persians, Egyptians and other people well knew massage and self-massage.
In the Europe in Middle Ages massage was not applied because of prosecution of inquisition.
Only during Revival once again there was an interest to culture of a body and massage.
The first, engaged seriously studying of influence of massage and телодвижений on a body and spirit of the person, was the Swedish doctor Peter-Henry Ling who has born in 1776.
Henry Ling, the son of the priest, was going to continue activity of the father.
Having ended a rate, at university of the city of Uppsala, it has left for the Europe, accompanying with the notable compatriot. In road Ling was ill, by the description, rheumatism for which it was treated at many famous doctors, but has not received healing. In Copenhagen Линг has got acquainted with two French emigres and took from them lessons of fencing.
Employment by fencing have facilitated its rheumatic pains then it has entirely engaged in studying of gymnastics and, carefully and comprehensively ознакомясь with anatomy and physiology, has written the textbook of gymnastics.
Further by long works it managed to open in Stockholm the central royal college of gymnastics.
This college exists to date. Day by day within the precincts of it patients for treatment, children of school age for employment by pedagogical gymnastics, both disciples and schoolgirls for studying gymnastics gather.
But Линг has processed, mainly, a question on the theory of movements, massage by the progress is obliged to doctor Mettsgeru from Germany which personal, extremely successful work on patients, has forced to speak about itself all Europe and has got to itself many followers on behalf of protruding doctors.
German professor Mozengejl was one of the first, started to work above physiology of massage. By experiences above animals it has put business of massage on a scientific basis.
For last 30 years treatment by massage has borrowed durable position in medicine, many of protruding doctors in Germany, France, England and America are engaged in it.
