MTH-132 Important People
Dr. Tiffany Field
-1942 -Touch Research Institute -touch helps infants in the NICU thrive
Ambrose Pare
-Renaissance -wrote about "Frictions"-massage techniques for joint stiffness and wound healing after surgery -French military surgeon
Milton Trager
-Rocking motion, Trager massage -born with a congenital spinal deformity
Ida Rolf
-Structural Integration(Rolfing) -earned a Ph.D in biochemistry in 1920
George H. Taylor & Charles F. Taylor
-Swedish Massage Cure, Brought massage therapist to the USA
William Harvey
-The Enlightenment Period -Discovered how the heart works
Douglas Graham
-Wrote A Treatise on Massage was published -normalized massage in America
Emil Vodder
-developed light massage strokes, compromising manual lymph drainage
Frances Tappan
-first textbook was published in 1961 -rehabilitated soldiers in WWII -provided therapy to John F. Kennedy
Hippocrates of Cos
c. 480-375 B.C. -Hippocratic Oath -"first, do no harm"
Jan Van Calcar
-Netherlands/Italy -Illustrator -Vesalius's collaborator
Florence Nightingale
-formalized nursing procedures -was a nurse during the Crimean War -organized care for wounded soldiers
Mary McMillan
-instructor of Reconstruction Aides -trained in London to help soldiers in WWI1
Dr. Joham Metzger
-Elleurage-stroke(gliding) -petrissage-kneading -tapotement-percussion
Aulus Celsus
-wrote De Medicina -part of a lost larger encyclopedia -related to diet, surgery
Rhazes
-c. 850-932 A.D. Middle Ages -CombinesGreek, Roman and Persian medicinal knowledge
Galan of Pergamon
-Physician of Gladiators and Emperors -second largest library in the ancient world -wrote medical texts containing theories that dominated Western medicinal thought for the next 4,000 years
James B. Mennel
-England -theorized that massage has both mechanical and reflexive effects -treatment of recovering British soldiers-WWI
Giovanni Borelli
-Explored contraction of the muscles "pulley system"
Pehr Henrik Ling
-Father of Swedish Massage -wrote the General Principles of Gymnastics -four different systems of movement-educational, aesthetic, medicinal, military -fencing master
Elizabeth Dicke
(connective tissue massage)Bindegewebsmassage
Auntie Margaret Machado
-Hawaii -Lomi-Lomi-"going to and from" -Oldest Hawaiian licensed in 1965
Benny Vaughn
-20 century; leader in sports massage education -was hired by the Atlanta Organizing Committee to develop the selection process for massage therapists at the Atlanta Olympics
Bonnie Prudden
-20th Century- Promoted Child Youth Fitness -report that shocked the president -48% american kids weaker than Europeans
John Harvey Kellogg
-20th Century- wrote the Art of Massage: Practical Manual for the Nurse, the Student and the Practitioner -veggie diet instead of steak and corn
Asclepius
-6th Century B.C. -Rod of Asclepius -establish Western Medicine
Avicenna
-930-1037 A.D. Middle Ages -wrote medical texts influential UNTIL the 18th Century
Girolamo Mercuriale
-De Arte Gymnatica -first book on sports medicine -likely influenced Shakespeare as he was creating Hamlet
Andreas Vesalius
-De Humani Corporis(The Huan Body) -first person to say Galen was wrong -wrote the text in the book
Hartvig Nissen
-wrote the Swedish Movement and Massage Treatment -created the first massage school in the US
