Massage & Bodywork Winner of 2 WPA MAGGIE Awards

ABMP and Massage & Bodywork magazine have been recognized by the Western Publishing Association (WPA) and its MAGGIE awards as the winner for Best Overall Publication Design (July/August 2015 issue) and Best News Story (“Know This Isn’t Professional,” September/October 2015). 

ABMP’s sister association, Associated Skin Care Professionals (ASCP), and its magazine, ASCP Skin Deep, was also recognized by WPA for Newsletters & Associations for its November/December 2015 issue. To learn more about ASCP, visit www.ascpskincare.com, and to learn more about ASCP Skin Deep, visit www.ascpskindeepdigital.com/i/581665-november-december-2015.

Winners in 82 editorial and design categories were announced at the 65th annual MAGGIE Awards held May 6, 2016, in Los Angeles. The WPA is a nonprofit business trade association dedicated to the advancement of the media publishing industry in the western United States. For more information, visit www.wpa-online.org

News

Increasing Education Hours: A Trend on the Rise

Due to a revised federal rule change, states with minimum-hour education requirements lower than 600 are considering increasing their massage therapy program length. Find out which states have already introduced bills that would raise education hours, which massage boards have proposed and made final rule changes, and why this is becoming a national trend.

Blog

ABMP CE Summit: Headaches

 Headaches.

Join us online Tuesday, April 30, 2024, for the ABMP CE Summit: Headaches, which take learners on a journey from understanding headaches to working with clients with headache pain using multiple modalities and techniques.

New CE Course: Stretching the Hip

Dr. Joe Muscolino displays a massage therapy technique.

The new ABMP CE course, “Stretching the Hip,” is available in the ABMP Education Center to view and earn 1.5 CE hours.

Benefits

Podcast: Cancer, Clots, and COVID—A Complicated Client

A client was recently treated for colon cancer—and it didn’t go well. She had surgical complications, a bout of sepsis, and more. Is massage therapy safe? We discuss on this episode of “I Have a Client Who . . .” Pathology Conversations with Ruth Werner.

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