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feedback (thoughts on what they feel). “I’m not a doctor,” Karen says, “but I do sometimes feel like one. I have to be pretty thorough with what I know about a patient. I ask a lot of questions, and I take a lot of notes. By taking a patient’s [medical] history and discussing what he or she wants out of therapy, we can both decide what type of therapy is best.” Some of the firstmedical professionals to performa type of massage therapy were doctors. In the 1800s, doctors began to recognize that massage therapy helped a patient heal after an injury. Many injured patients were told to use some form of massage therapy in addition to other forms of physical therapy.

Acupressure is a popular form of massage therapy.

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