Historical Figures Flashcards
Polarity
“Balancing positive and negative charges of the body”
Ex: rocking
Dr. Randolph Stone
Bindge web massage
Connective tissue technique
Elizabeth Dicke
Wrote textbook “Healing Massage Techniques”
“Godmother of education
Frances Tappen
Systemized Swedish Massage
Danish guy
French names for strokes
Per Hendrich Ling
“Father of medicine”
Prescriptions for massage Stated “5 spikes on wheel of good health” 1. Diet/ nutrition 2. Exercise/ gymnastics 3. Mental gymnastics 4. Surgery 5. Anatriptus “to rub”
Hippocrates
Therapeutic touch (a system for nurses”
“Aura fluffing”
Delores Krieger
Stated deep cross-fiber friction most effective
X = cross fiber
James Cyriax
Used pincement to treat neuralgia
Seizures
Julius Caesar
Rolfing
Deep, deep pressure
Structural innovation
Ida Rolf
Wrote “technique der massage”
One of the first written books in Gutenberg press
Albert J Hoffa
Wrote first textbook published in US (1902)
Douglas Graham
Tragger approach
American boxer
Worked on himself and athletes
Milton Tragger
Wrote “mysofascial pain and dysfunction”
First female Whitehouse physician
Dr. Janet Travell
Reflexology
“The Ingham Method”
First to systemize reflexology
Eunice Ingham
Manual lymph drainage
Australian
“Pumping” stroke
Dr. Emil Vodder