History of Massage
A center where exercise and massage are combined to treat disease and promote health.
Gymnasium
neurotransmitter that controls fine movement, emotional response, and the ability to experience pleasure and pain.
Dopamine
Medical reason not to massage
Contraindication
Guiding moral principles that governs a person's choice of action
Code of ethics
Tapotement
Code of ethics for physicians.
Hippocratic Oath
increased blood in an area of the body
Hyperemia
Condition of excess fluid in the interstitial spaces.
Edema
Personal comfort zones that help a person maintain a sense of comfort and safety.
Boundaries
Succession of strokes applied by gliding the hand over an extended portion of the body.
Effleurage
Professional application of structured, therapeutic touch to benefit soft tissue health, movement, posture, and neurological patterns.
Positive effects of relaxing massage interrupt the transmission of pain sensations of affected nociceptors from entering the central nervous system
Gate Control Theory
Mass of blood trapped in some tissue or cavity of the body that is a result of internal bleeding.
Hematoma
acceptable and professional behavior by which a person or establisment conducts business.
Ethical Standards of Practice
lifts, squeezes, and presses the tissue
Petrissage