Due to immense physical demands, dancers commonly experience a variety of ankle and foot injuries. Massage can be used alongside treatment plans to provide physical and mental benefits during recovery.
Sidelying not only offers technical benefits, like allowing therapists to easily mobilize joints, access lateral areas of the body, and perform movement-based approaches, but it can also be safer for some clients.
Massage therapy can play a significant role in treating nerve pain. But learning those various types of pain is key to understanding how massage can help.
Exercise and stretching might be what the doctor ordered, but pandiculation could be a combo to help clients go a little further, and with your assistance.
Because you amass a wealth of knowledge in your profession does not mean you’ll have answers to questions ready at hand. It does mean, however, all that knowledge can teach you to keep your mind open for more.
The metatarsophalangeal joint of the big toe is often overlooked with regard to proper and improper function. That said, it is important to consider as part of the possible kinematics of a client’s condition.
Being prepared with compassion, a little learning, and talking points for conversation with your elderly client is all it takes to help ease concerns regarding massage for the feet.
Learning the specifics of the intrinsic muscles of the hand is knowledge that may not be used often, but for those clients who present with issues in their hands, it can prove invaluable.
