Massage in Sports, business and organizations

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• Massage developed alongside athletics in both Ancient China and Ancient Greece. Taoist clergymen advanced rubdown in live performance with their Kung Fu gymnastic moves, at the same time as Ancient Greek Olympians used a selected kind of teacher ("aleiptes") who could rub their muscle tissues with oil. Pehr Ling's introduction to massage additionally occurred at once as a result of his look at of gymnastic moves.

• The 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles turned into the first time that rubdown therapy became televised as it become being performed on the athletes. And then, for the duration of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta rubdown remedy turned into in the end presented as a middle medical service to America Olympic Team. Massage has been employed by groups and agencies such as the U.S. Department of Justice, Boeing and Reebok. Notable athletes such as Michael Jordan and LeBron James have private massage therapists that at instances even travel with them.