Clients who have had head injuries can most benefit when their massage therapist makes them feel safe.
Scars certainly impact their immediate vicinity, but they can also have a wide-ranging effect beyond that area. Understanding these impacts as a massage therapist can better your client's quality of life.
A treatment plan is what elevates massage therapy from a service to a therapeutic profession. It is the tangible output of our clinical reasoning.
Considering the situation that led to your client’s pain can prove as valuable as understanding where the pain exists.
Crafting a definition for this profession can help unify massage therapy and massage therapists in their roles as valid health-care providers.
It’s easy for us to get stuck in our work—physically, mentally, emotionally. Let’s look beyond the usual self-care routines to find better ways to get unstuck and back to the work you love.
Self-defense skills can help MTs feel safer and more confident in the treatment room.
Golfer's elbow and tennis elbow are both musculoskeletal pathologies that are hallmarked by elbow pain, hence their names. Even though these conditions cause elbow pain, they are not conditions of the actual elbow joint.
While manual therapies do not stop the progression of Alzheimer's disease or dementia, they can help improve the patient's quality of life.
ANATOMYScapes debuts its video "The Sciatic Nerve: A 3D View from the Inside Out" in Massage & Bodywork magazine to deep dive into the sciatic nerve and its 3D fascial reality.
Heath and Nicole Reed demonstrate how to practice compassionate touch and breathwork, which can improve mental, physical, and emotional health.
Rachelle Clauson and Nicole Trombley discuss how loose connective tissue, rich in water-loving hyaluronan, might play a key role in low-back pain.
Ruth Werner discusses endangerment sites, what they are, and their role in massage therapy with leading educator Whitney Lowe.
