The first written records of massage therapy in Ayurvedic range between 1,500 and 500 B.C.E., but research suggests the practice of these techniques many centuries before.
More recently professor Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914), a neurologist in Philadelphia is thought to be the first to bring massage to the attention of the US medical community.
In 1885, Harvey Kellogg published the classic textbook The Art of Massage, Its Physiological Effects and Therapeutic Actions.
During the nineteenth century, massage in Europe was described in the medical literature and was taught at institutions and also offered by lay practitioners.
Mudrov, MD used massage and movement exercises in his medical practice with adults and later applied it to the development of children.