Massage is the treatment and practice of manipulation of the soft body tissues with physical, functional, i.e. mechanical, medical/therapeutic, and in some cases psychological purposes and goals.[1] The word comes from the French massage "friction of kneading," possibly from Arabic massa "to touch, feel, handle" or from Latin massa "mass, dough". [2][3] (In distinction the ancient Greek word for massage itself was anatripsis [4], and the Latin was frictio.) An older etymology may even have been the Hebrew me-sakj "to anoint with oil." 2008-08-22T17:12:31+00:00 2 8714 massage therapist contraindications 33535 2008-12-09T00:00:00+00:00 massage-therapist-contraindications Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massage 2008-12-09T22:43:25+00:00