From Ancient Times to Modern Healthcare — Richard Lebert Registered Massage Therapy

These are the research papers I used to help formulate my ideas based on over-lapping concepts from massage therapy, physiotherapy, chiropractic, osteopathy and other traditional healing approaches.

Béres, A. (2024). Revisiting the relationship between traditional East Asian medicine and biomedicine: Incorporating the Western into the Eastern. European Journal of Integrative Medicine, 70, 102388.

Bialosky, J. E., Beneciuk, J. M., Bishop, M. D., Coronado, R. A., Penza, C. W., Simon, C. B., & George, S. Z. (2018). Unraveling the Mechanisms of Manual Therapy: Modeling an Approach. The Journal of orthopaedic and sports physical therapy, 48(1), 8–18. https://doi.org/10.2519/jospt.2018.7476

Cerritelli, F., & Esteves, J. E. (2022). An Enactive-Ecological Model to Guide Patient-Centered Osteopathic Care. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 10(6), 1092. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10061092

Çetkin, M., Bahşi, İ., & Orhan, M. (2019). The Massage Approach of Avicenna in the Canon of Medicine. Acta medico-historica adriatica : AMHA, 17(1), 103–114. https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.17.1.6

Degenhardt, B., van Dun, P. L. S., Jacobson, E., Fritz, S., Mettler, P., Kettner, N., Franklin, G., Hensel, K., Lesondak, D., Consorti, G., Frank, L., Reed, W. R., MacDonald, C., Kremen, V., Martin, C., Landels, B., & Standley, P. (2024). Profession-based manual therapy nomenclature: exploring history, limitations, and opportunities. The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy, 32(1), 96–110. https://doi.org/10.1080/10669817.2023.2288495

Draper-Rodi, J., Newell, D., Barbe, M. F., & Bialosky, J. (2024). Integrated manual therapies: IASP taskforce viewpoint. Pain reports, 9(6), e1192. https://doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000001192

Elendu, C. (2024). The evolution of ancient healing practices: From shamanism to Hippocratic medicine: A review. Medicine, 103(28), e39005. https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000039005

Graham, D. (1879). History of Massage. Atlanta medical and surgical journal, 17(7), 426–434.

Graham, K. D., Foley, H., Adams, J., & Steel, A. (2023). Complex systems, complex practice, complex outcomes: a call for the development of complexity-informed implementation models (CIIM) for traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine. European Journal of Integrative Medicine, 64, 102314.

Heffernan, C. (2022). State of the field: Physical culture. History, 107(374), 143-162.

Hentschel, H. D., & Schneider, J. (2004). Zur geschichte der massage in der indischen lebens- und heilweise [The history of massage in the ways of life and healing in India]. Wurzburger medizinhistorische Mitteilungen, 23, 179–203.

Jonas, W. B., & Rosenbaum, E. (2021). The Case for Whole-Person Integrative Care. Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 57(7), 677. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina57070677

Justice, C., Sullivan, M. B., Van Demark, C. B., Davis, C. M., & Erb, M. (2023). Guiding Principles for the Practice of Integrative Physical Therapy. Physical therapy, 103(12), pzad138. https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/pzad138

Iorio, S., Marinozzi, S., & Gazzaniga, V. (2018). Healing bodies: the ancient origins of massages and Roman practices. Medicina Historica, 1(2), 58-62.

Kerry, R., Young, K. J., Evans, D. W., Lee, E., Georgopoulos, V., Meakins, A., McCarthy, C., Cook, C., Ridehalgh, C., Vogel, S., Banton, A., Bergström, C., Mazzieri, A. M., Mourad, F., & Hutting, N. (2024). A modern way to teach and practice manual therapy. Chiropractic & manual therapies, 32(1), 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-024-00537-0

Kleisiaris, C. F., Sfakianakis, C., & Papathanasiou, I. V. (2014). Health care practices in ancient Greece: The Hippocratic ideal. Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine, 7, 6.

Langevin, H. M. (2024). Health and Well-Being: Distinct and Intertwined Concepts. Medical care, 62(12 Suppl 1), S13–S14. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000002061

Lebert, R., Noy, M., Purves, E., & Tibbett, J. (2022). Massage Therapy: A Person-Centred Approach to Chronic Pain. International journal of therapeutic massage & bodywork, 15(3), 27–34. https://doi.org/10.3822/ijtmb.v15i3.713

Lynch, J. M., Thomas, H. R., Askew, D. A., & Sturman, N. (2023). Holding the complex whole: Generalist philosophy, priorities and practice that facilitate whole-person care. Australian journal of general practice, 52(7), 428–433. https://doi.org/10.31128/AJGP-01-23-6686

Ma, Y., Sun, S., & Peng, C. K. (2014). Applications of dynamical complexity theory in traditional Chinese medicine. Frontiers of medicine, 8(3), 279–284. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11684-014-0367-6

Ma, Y., Zhou, K., Fan, J., & Sun, S. (2016). Traditional Chinese medicine: potential approaches from modern dynamical complexity theories. Frontiers of medicine, 10(1), 28–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11684-016-0434-2

MacDonald, C. W., Osmotherly, P. G., Parkes, R., & Rivett, D. A. (2019). The current manipulation debate: historical context to address a broken narrative. The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy, 27(1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/10669817.2019.1558382

MacDonald, C. W., Parkes, R., & Osmotherly, P. G. (2024). Part I: examining the broken history of manual therapy across professions. A survey-based analysis. The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy, 1–7. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10669817.2024.2426750

MacDonald, C. W., Parkes, R., & Osmotherly, P. G. (2024). Part II: Beyond Broken Histories: Reframing Professional Identity and the Historical Genesis of Manual Therapy. Interviews across professions. The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy, 1–13. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10669817.2024.2426051

Martin, F. H. (1883). Massage-Its Application. The Chicago medical journal and examiner, 47(1), 26–34.

McNeill, K., Reyes, N., Choe, S., Peterson, D., Bryant, D., & Sonnadara, R. R. (2023). A History of Musculoskeletal Medicine and Its Place and Progress in Undergraduate Medical Education. Medical science educator, 33(3), 777–790. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-023-01782-3

McParlin, Z., Cerritelli, F., Rossettini, G., Friston, K. J., & Esteves, J. E. (2022). Therapeutic Alliance as Active Inference: The Role of Therapeutic Touch and Biobehavioural Synchrony in Musculoskeletal Care. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 16, 897247. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.897247

Mehl-Madrona, L., Conte, J. A., & Mainguy, B. (2023). Indigenous roots of osteopathy. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 19(4), 923-932.

Nesi, J., Benites, M., & Schedler, F. B. (2024). Enactivism: A contemporary perspective of a reconceptualization of osteopathy. Advances in Integrative Medicine.

Nicholls, D. A., & Cheek, J. (2006). Physiotherapy and the shadow of prostitution: the Society of Trained Masseuses and the massage scandals of 1894. Social science & medicine (1982), 62(9), 2336–2348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.09.010

Ng, J. Y., Dhawan, T., Fajardo, R. G., Masood, H. A., Sunderji, S., Wieland, L. S., & Moher, D. (2023). The Brief History of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine Terminology and the Development and Creation of an Operational Definition. Integrative medicine research, 12(4), 100978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imr.2023.100978

Pettman, E. (2007). A history of manipulative therapy. The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy, 15(3), 165–174. https://doi.org/10.1179/106698107790819873

Quinlan, E. B., Baumgartner, J., Chen, W. G., Weber, W., Horgusluoglu, E., & Edwards, E. (2024). Promoting salutogenic pathways to health through complementary and integrative health approaches. Frontiers in psychology, 15, 1473735. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1473735

Ruffin, P. T. (2011). A history of massage in nurse training school curricula (1860-1945). Journal of holistic nursing : official journal of the American Holistic Nurses’ Association, 29(1), 61–67. https://doi.org/10.1177/0898010110377355

Ruscoe, G. A., Schiller, S., Jones, R. J., MacDonald, C. W., & McGrath, R. L. (2024). Physiotherapy: the history behind the word. Physiotherapy theory and practice, 40(11), 2469–2471. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2024.2414548

Sherman, K. J., Dixon, M. W., Thompson, D., & Cherkin, D. C. (2006). Development of a taxonomy to describe massage treatments for musculoskeletal pain. BMC complementary and alternative medicine, 6, 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-6-24

Struthers, R., Eschiti, V. S., & Patchell, B. (2004). Traditional indigenous healing: Part I. Complementary therapies in nursing & midwifery, 10(3), 141–149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctnm.2004.05.001

Terlouw, T. J. (2007). Roots of Physical Medicine, Physical Therapy, and Mechanotherapy in the Netherlands in the 19 Century: A Disputed Area within the Healthcare Domain. The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy, 15(2), E23–E41. https://doi.org/10.1179/jmt.2007.15.2.23E

Zegarra-Parodi, R., D’Alessandro, G., Baroni, F., Swidrovich, J., Mehl-Madrona, L., Gordon, T., Ciullo, L., Castel, E., & Lunghi, C. (2024). Epistemological Flexibility in Person-Centered Care: The Cynefin Framework for (Re)Integrating Indigenous Body Representations in Manual Therapy. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 12(11), 1149. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12111149