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WorksheetsMassage History
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Approximately when did the first (written) mention of massage appear?
a)
Around 2000AD
b)
Around 2000BC
c)
Around 1400AD
d)
Around 1840AD
2.
What is the name of the Greek physician who first advocated massage?
a)
Galen
b)
Ambrose Pare
c)
Per Ling
d)
Hippocrates of Cos
3.
What is the name of the French physician who used massage techniques for joint stiffness and wound healing after surgery?
a)
Galen
b)
Tiffany Field
c)
Ambrose Pare
d)
Per Ling
4.
What is the name of the Dutch doctor who presented massage as a form of medical treatments in the 1800s?
a)
Per Ling
b)
Hippocrates of Cos
c)
Ambrose Pare
d)
Johann Mezger
5.
Who were the two physicians who conducted the first controlled clinical trial of the benefits of massage in managing disease?
a)
Galen and Hippocrates
b)
Emil and Estrid Voder
c)
Jacobi and White
d)
Cyriax and Mezger
6.
The cultural origins of massage come primarily from which two countries?
a)
China and India
b)
France and India
c)
Greece and China
d)
China and America
7.
Emil and Estrid Voder developed a type of massage for what purpose?
a)
Skeletal realignment
b)
Lymphatic drainage
c)
Shifting energies
d)
Healing wounds after surgery
8.
What is the name of the surgeon who developed transverse friction massage and wrote "Textbook of Orthopedic Medicine"--dealing with conditions of the body's soft tissues.
a)
Galen
b)
James Cyriax
c)
Tiffany Field
d)
Johann Mezger
9.
Who is credited with developing Swedish massage?
a)
Johann Mezger
b)
Emily Rolf
c)
Ambrose Pare
d)
Per Ling
10.
This man was the founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and wrote articles and books about massage and hydrotherapy.
a)
John Kellogg
b)
Per Ling
c)
Charles Taylor
d)
Charles Mills
11.
Charles Taylor and his brother George Taylor were important because they . . .
a)
wrote the first textbook about massage
b)
completed the first clinical study on the use of massage
c)
founded the American Association of Masseurs and Masseuses
d)
introduced the Swedish movements to the United States
12.
In the late 1800s there were criticisms and scandals involving massage because . . .
a)
there was an uneven quality of lay practitioners of massage
b)
some practitioners were making false claims about the potential benefits of massage
c)
some massage clinics were fronts for prostitution
d)
All of the above
13.
Randolph Stone created which type of therapy?
a)
Hyrdotherapy
b)
Rolfing
c)
Polarity therapy
d)
Electrotherapy
14.
Which of the following is NOT a stroke used in classic massage?
a)
tapotement
b)
anatripment
c)
petrissage
d)
effleurage
15.
David Palmer is credited with which step in massage history?
a)
Insisting that all massage therapists be certified.
b)
Writing the most well-respected modern textbook on massage.
c)
founding the Touch Institute in Miami
d)
formalizing the concepts of on-site and chair massage.
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