GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS Effleurage is the most ancient of massage techniques. Ancient Egyptian murals depict the earliest human records of massage treatment, and, judging by the body position of the therapist, he is applying effleurage strokes. Later, around 800 B.C., Homer mentions smooth massage strokes in his poems. In the Odyssey, one reads of women gently […]

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