March/April 2023
Technique
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Are Your Clients Skilled Receivers?
By Til LuchauThere are simple ways to help clients be more engaged, interested, and involved. Clients who know how to actively receive are great to work with and get even more out of their sessions.
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The Secret Life of Adductors
The adductors take the cake for being simultaneously easy and hard to stretch. In their secret efforts to master the art of puppeteering, the adductors fall victim to the inability to let go.
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Neural Noise
The ever-present neural background noise most of us experience but are unaware of can contribute to a continual "threat-like" effect; massage can create a relaxing experience that dials down this noise.
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Do You Get on Your Client's Nerves?
Three nerves that have caused the author trouble over the years include the sciatic nerve, cervical root nerves, and the superior cluneal nerve. The myoskeletal techniques outlined here can help avoid unintentionally colliding with your clients' nerves.
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How Massage Lotion Affects Your Body Mechanics
While the term placebo effect can carry negative connotations, it can also be a positive in working with clients when we use placebo pathways to help clients feel better and help manage their pain.
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Treating Plantar Foot Pain, Part 2
By Whitney LoweThe feet and legs are sometimes ignored in massage treatment. Yet, lower-extremity massage has resounding effects throughout the kinetic chain of our body.
Critical Thinking and Essentials
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Inflammation Benefits You and Your Body
Taking steps to offset, decrease, and prevent inflammation is key to optimizing your current and future health.
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Skin Cancer and Skin of Color
By Ruth WernerMore information about skin of color can help fill the vacuum of knowledge that exists. And improved awareness may help people with dark skin tones receive better, and earlier, care.
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What's Going On with Massage Therapy Research?
By Cal CatesWhat we do and who we are as massage therapists needs to be more accurately reflected in massage therapy research.
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Stop with the Work-Shaming
By Laura AllenValuing the inherit worth, rights, and dignity of each individual includes other massage therapists.
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A Placebo Approach to Massage
By Mark LiskeyWhile the term placebo effect can carry negative connotations, it can also be a positive in working with clients when we use placebo pathways to help clients feel better and help manager their pain.
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Celebrating the Femur
In an excerpt from a new book from David Lauterstein and Jeff Rockwell, the authors explore the connection between the bones, the massage therapist, and the client's whole being.
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Faces of Bodywork: Lee Hodges
"I enjoy my connection with people."—Lee Hodges
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Tensegrity and Biotensegrity
Tensegrity. It's not just a useful model; it may prove to be the tensional blueprint of all living matter.
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Savings Accounts Can Keep Your Business Stable
Be consistent in funding yourself through savings accounts and the future you will thank you.
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How to Ensure Your Client Feels Heard
Practicing active listening fosters compassionate client relationships and equips you to more accurately respond to client needs.
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Fascia Lata: Home of the IT Band
The IT band functions as part of a 3D system with connections above to the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, and tensor fascia lata; below to the lateral knee; and deep to the femur via the lateral intermuscular septum.
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ABMP Member Survey: Massage Session Pricing
We asked ABMP members some questions about the prices of their typical 60-minute massage or bodywork session—where it is now, and how it has changed.
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Skin Cancer: A Closer Look
By Ruth WernerEveryone is at risk of skin cancer, regardless of skin color.