NO VIRUS CAN ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR MEDICAL MASSAGE

Massage has always been a part of medicine. Chinese texts, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Hippocrates’ writings all leave evidence of how the “art of rubbing” was part of every eon’s respective health care toolkit.

In our more recent history up until the 1970s, massage was part of nursing care and the evening shift included giving massage to patients prior to sleep.

In the late 1980s massage therapists started to fill in where nursing left off. A Plane Tree unit of a San Francisco hospital took the next step by creating an internship program to prepare massage therapists to work within the medical center setting and with medically complex patients.

Since then, the field of hospital-based massage 강남오피 therapy has seen substantial growth. There are several education programs specific to hospital-based massage; there are published competencies to help guide administrators, educators and practitioners in knowing the needed skillsets; and there are textbooks, such as those written by Gayle MacDonald and me, Tracy Walton, and Ruth Werner, for working with medically complex patients, both out-patient and in medical centers.