1. Ancient wisdom clarified by modern science As early as 3000 bc, the Chinese practised massage to cure ailments and improve general health. In the Iliad and the Odyssey the massage is indicated for warriors after battles. Massage as a daily health routine for Hindi, Massage as a craft in Thailand, Leaf « smacking » in Russia’s banya … Throughout history exemples of methodic passive mobilisation of the soft tissue are numerous. And using tools that stood the test of time i

Musculoskeletal pain is the most common manifestation of chronic pain. The term Neuromusculoskeletal pain is preferable for the forms of chronic pain to convey accurately the notion that the perpetuation of pain depends upon fundamental changes in the nervous system. Neuroplasticity is a normal adaptive change in the function and/or structure of the nervous system in response to a nociceptive signal. However, in chronic pain, these neuroplastic changes become maladaptive and