Massage includes working and also acting upon the body with stress-- structured

Massage therapy entails functioning as well as acting upon the body with tension-- organized, disorganized, stationary, or relocating-- strain, activity, or vibration, done manually or with mechanical aids. Massage therapy can be used with the hands, fingers, elbows, knees, lower arm, feet, or a massage therapy tool. Massage therapy could advertise leisure and also wellness, [1] [2] can be a recreational activity, and also can be sexual in the natural world (see Sexual massage therapy).

Words originates from the French massage therapy "friction of massaging", or from Arabic massa meaning "to touch, feel or deal with" or from Latin massa indicating "mass, dough", [3] [4] cf. Greek verb μά��� (mass�) "to manage, touch, to collaborate with the hands, to knead dough". [5] In distinction the old Greek word for massage therapy was anatripsis, [6] and also the Latin was frictio.