Types of Massage
There are well over 80 different types of massage therapy. Various styles of massage have developed from a number of sources. However, most can be broken down into five broad categories:
- Traditional European Massage
- Contemporary Western Massage
- Structural/Functional/Movement Integration
- Oriental Methods
- Energetic Methods (Non-oriental)
The majority of activity in this field is oriented toward the traditional European and contemporary Western forms of massage simply because there are such large numbers of practitioners of these methods.