National Massage and Bodywork Certification Test, Study Questions Part1

Important Contributors in the History of Massage and Bodywork

The National Massage Therapy and Bodywork Certification is created by the National Certification Board and is required to pass in many states in order to practice. Over the next couple of weeks I will post study guides on hubpages.com on the different areas covered in this exam.

Important Contributors in the History of Massage and Bodywork Example Questions

1. What massage technique was discovered by Tamai Tempaka?
2. Who first created the movements known as Swedish remedial gymnastics, developing the foundation for Swedish massage?
3. Who is credited to be the ‘founder’ of chiropractic and who is credited as the ‘developer’?
4. What husband and wife team created manual lymphatic drainage techniques?
5. Who wrote a book on polarity therapy entitled The New Energy Concept of the Healing Art?
6. Dr. Ida Pauline Rolf structural integration techniques are better known as what?
7. The introduction of modern reflexology was made by what two men?
8. Who put names to common Swedish movements, such as effleurage, friction and tapotement?
9. James Cyriax’s Textbook of Orthopaedic Medicine, Volume 11, described the concert of what kind of techniques?
10. Dr. Johann Mezger developed the fundamentals of rehabilitation which is now used in what therapy?
11. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell played what key role in massage therapy?
12. What German physcian wrote Technik der Massage in 1900?
13. What is another name for bindewebsmassage therapy created by Elizabeth Dicke?
14. Who was the Director of Physiotherapy at Harvard Medical School and the cofounder of American Physical Therapy Association?
15. What program did Robert Toporek create to take Rolfing to a new level?
16. In the late 1700s, German physician Samuel Hahnemann developed what form what alternative medicine?
17. Who helped to popularize the Microbiotic diet and created its yin yang philosophy?
18. Who founded The Canadian Mitzvah Technique Center and Training School and developed the Mitzvah Technique?
19. Although an ancient form of healing, who is credited for rediscovered the Reiki technique in the 1800s?
20. Milton Trager created what form of moment education?
21. Unergi is a holistic therapy method created by Ute Arnold. The term ‘Unergi’ is created by combining what two words?
22. Who started to use the term ‘myofascial’?
23. What two women developed Therapeutic Touch, also known as Non-Contact Therapeutic Touch?
24. American psychologist Ruth Rice did research on the effects on what type of massage?
25. Who is the Father of Medicine?

ANSWERS

1. Shiatsu
2. Per Henrik Ling
3. D.D. Palmer as the founder and his son, B.J. Palmer, as the developer
4. Dr. Emil Vodder and Dr. Estrid Vodder
5. Dr. Randolph Stone
6. Rolfing
7. William H. Fitzgerald and Dr. Edwin Bowers
8. Johann Mezger
9. Deep transverse techniques, which are well known in sports massage
10. Physical Therapy
11. He brought massage therapy to the United States in 1870.
12. Albert J. Hoffa
13. Connective Tissue Therapy (CTT)
14. Mary McMillan
15. Posture Perfect
16. homeopathy
17. Dr. George Oshawa
18. M. Cohen-Nehemia
19. Dr. Mikao Usui
20. The Trager Approach
21. Unity and energy
22. Janet G. Travell
23. Dolores Krieger and Dora Kunz
24. Infant massage
25. Hipprocrates