HISTORY, BASIS AND TECHNIQUES OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE MASSAGE1 1Delivered at the XI Biennial Congress of the A.P.A., Adelaide, August, 1969.

Connective Tissue Massage has been practiced as a therapeutic procedure for three decades. In Germany, its country of origin, as in most parts of Europe, it is an integral part of Physiotherapy and is taught at every training school. The medical practitioner has accepted C.T.M. as a manual form of neural therapy and prescribes it freely for the benefit of his patients. In English speaking countries C.T.M. is almost unknown, its slow acceptance being due to the following reasons:1. Our present day knowledge makes it impossible to account on a scientific basis for ail the effects gained by the application of C.T.M.2. The misleading name “Connective tissue massage”, by emphasizing the word massage makes the treatment suspect to the medical practitioner and the physiotherapist