Dissection and Illustration Videos Added to ABMP Five-Minute Muscles
ABMP is excited to announce a partnership with Dr. Joe Muscolino to add 83 animated illustration videos and 80 muscle-specific cadaver dissection videos to the already stellar ABMP Five-Minute Muscles program, giving massage therapists even more muscle information at their fingertips.
Exclusively available as a benefit of ABMP membership, or for students as part of ABMP Exam Coach Plus, ABMP Five-Minute Muscles covers the seven muscle regions and 83 muscles most often addressed by professional massage therapists. The program provides muscle actions, origins and insertions, and more detail for each muscle.
Muscle-specific palpation and technique videos from master massage therapist Clint Chandler already accompanied each muscle. Now, the video library has detailed cadaver dissection and animated illustration videos that provide massage therapy professionals and students a deeper level of insight and information.
Dr. Joe Muscolino has been a manual and movement therapy educator for more than 35 years. He is a global educator and author of multiple textbooks, including TheMuscle and Bone Palpation Manual and the Musculoskeletal Anatomy Coloring Book, and is a longtime contributor to Massage & Bodywork magazine. Muscolino is the owner of LearnMuscles Continuing Education (LMCE), which is home to more than 3,000 video lessons and 300 hours of CE.
Included as part of membership, ABMP members can log in and access the program at abmp.com/5mm. In addition, ABMP Five-Minute Muscles can easily be saved to a computer or mobile device by following the instructions within the program, allowing it to function like an app without taking up significant device space.
For students and schools, adding ABMP Five-Minute Muscles through ABMP Exam Coach Plus is a great way to help students with one of their biggest pain points—learning the muscles. ABMP Exam Coach Plus includes ABMP Exam Coach, ABMP Five-Minute Muscles, and a student’s first year of Professional membership and liability insurance for $10/month for 12 months.
Find more information at abmp.com/five-minute-muscles and abmp.com/students/abmp-exam-coach-plus.
Celebrate Massage is for EveryBody week
ABMP invites you to join us July 16–22, 2023, for Massage is for EveryBody week. For more than two decades, ABMP has carved out space to specifically promote the importance of bodywork.
To honor and support massage therapists and bodyworkers, ABMP is also giving away $1,000 awards to 10 practitioners who live these values. Practitioners can submit an entry, in 300 words or fewer, and tell us how you support the Massage is for EveryBody guiding principles in your practice.
Learn more at abmp.com/massage-week.
Skin Cancer Differential Diagnoses: Things That Aren’t Skin Cancer
This blog by Ruth Werner partners with her recent feature article and column on skin cancer in the March/April 2023 issue of Massage & Bodywork, as well as a new 90-minute course on the topic that she created for ABMP. Here, she discusses how suspicious-looking skin changes are not always what we might think.
Read more at abmp.com/updates/blog-posts/skin-cancer-differential-diagnoses-things-aren-t-skin-cancer.
ABMP Employees Featured in Huffington Post Article
ABMP Employees Featured in Huffington Post Article
In a recent article by the Huffington Post, ABMP Director of Professional Education Kristin Coverly and ABMP Advertising Director Angie Parris-Raney were featured to weigh in on what massage therapists notice during a session.
“As soon as I start working, I can tell which areas of the body need more work by the way the muscles and soft tissue feel under my hands,” Coverly said. “I let the body talk to me, to tell me not only which areas to work, but which techniques to use and what level of pressure to apply. What I’m feeling and all of this information my hands are receiving help me make decisions about how much time to spend in a certain area, what techniques to use and what level of pressure is appropriate and beneficial.”
Parris-Raney added, “In the more than 20 years I’ve been in practice, I’ve come to understand that people just want to be heard, seen and understood, and to have their pain validated.”
Read the full article at https://bit.ly/3JEioue.
The ABMP Podcast Network
“Humbitious: Low-Ego, High-Drive Leadership”
Arrogant. Charismatic. Narcissistic. If you were to name traits that define strong leaders, these words might spring to mind. The evidence, however, tells quite a different story. In this episode of The ABMP Podcast, Kristin and Darren are joined by professor and author Dr. Amer Kaissi to discuss how humility and ambition converge to make a great leader, the interesting dynamic between self-awareness and humility, and behaviors we can all learn to develop humble leadership.
abmp.com/podcasts/ep-325-humbitious-low-ego-high-drive-leadership-dr-amer-kaissi