Massage therapy was done by massage therapists alongside doctors in the 1880s as assistants in treating physiological illness. Massages are a system of long and short smooth strokes that are rhythmic and synchronised. The goal of massage therapy is to calm your nervous system along with improve general well being by minimising and removing pain. Massage therapy is done usually by a registered massage therapist who specialises in all types of massages from relaxation to medicinal massage therapy.