March/April 2017

One of the most challenging situations facing practitioners who work with pain and injury conditions is correctly interpreting nerve injury symptoms.

At one point, I realized that most everything I was doing in the massage room to take care of my body had a common element: a neutral (not flexed, extended, or rotated) back.

When a client lies down on our table, something curious happens. Their three-dimensional body—becomes two-dimensional.

While the medical and therapeutic professions can offer significant assistance to people with depression or anxiety, I thought it would be helpful to share my perspective as a massage therapist on these conditions.

Although there are many "techniques" in the world of massage and manual therapies, the actual number of fundamental hands-on skill sets are few. Skill sets may include soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, and joint mobilization.

Think of how many times in a day you utter the words "thank you" to another person or hear those words spoken to you. Every single time they are used, they evoke a sense of pride, appreciation, respect, accomplishment, sincerity, and sheer joy in either the speaker or the listener.

Doug Nelson recounts meeting a massage client with a limp, leg and foot pain, and a rare condition called hemipelvis.

One of the hardest components of ethics knowledge to master is communication. A review of these ethics challenges for massage therapists will help you maintain a healthy practice.

In a new study, a detailed comparison of sacral nerves' characteristics with sympathetic and parasympathetic motor neurons elsewhere in the nervous system, the study found sacral nerves matched sympathetic nerves, but didn't match parasympathetic features, as we originally thought.

It’s true you can’t teach experience, but there seemed to be a missing piece to this puzzle—namely, a clear distinction between the quantity of hours spent practicing and the quality of that practice.