Traditional Thai Medical Massage or Nuad Bo Rarn has been taught and practiced in Thailand for about 2,500 years. Although the origins are somewhat vague, credit for the origin of Thai Massage is given to a famous Indian doctor, Shvago Komarpaj, who was the personal physician of the Buddha and Magadha king. It is said to have originated in the Vajrayana Yogic medicine of Tibet before coming to Thailand. The father of massage therapy in the United States was Cornelius E. De Puy, MD, who published his first journal on the subject in 1817. Today, massage is an accepted part of many physical rehabilitation programs and has proven a benefit to many chronic conditions such as low back pain, arthritis, and bursitis.
Massage helps relieve the stress and tension of everyday living.
It helps to obtain maximum conditioning by increasing power, endurance and flexibility both before and after an event or work out. Whether you are just starting a work out program or are in training for an event, you will benefit. Swimmers, weight lifters, runners, golfers, ball players, skaters, dancers, tennis players, musicians and boxers, as well as weekend athletes, have benefited from sports massage. Injuries are commonly experienced when someone has just started training, overstrains, fails to sufficiently warm-up, receives trauma or has muscular imbalances, poor flexibility, mineral deficiencies or inadequate endurance. Sports massage can partially compensate for a lack of exercise during inactivity while recovering from injury.