Swedish Massage (1830)

Record 044 · Mechanical · 1830

67%30.44.K

Swedish Massage

Pehr Henrik Ling / Johann Mezger

“The named stroke sequence that made massage a protocol you could teach.”

Ling's gymnastics and Mezger's French terms became the western massage session: a order of strokes, a duration, a table.

Opened massage as a structured session.

Official site
  • Named strokes
  • Clinic massage format
  • Teachable sequence

Effleurage, petrissage, tapotement.