The history behind massage therapy is full of countless surprises and interesting characters. Below is a list of seven people who made major contributions to the world of massage therapy. Avicenna Portions of the twelfth-century Latin translation of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. Avicenna was a Persian polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. Often described as the father of early modern medicine, he was a devout follower of Aristotle and the chief physician at t [...]