Finding new ways to press, squeeze, and glide can help reduce the repetitive-use injuries common for massage therapy and bodywork practitioners. Experimenting with different combinations, angles of pressure, and positions around the table can help you massage pain-free.
What happens when muscles become too entangled in their muscle groups? Focusing on the fascia that surrounds and separates muscles can help in a number of ways.
Every client, every session, every day is an opportunity for assessing and reassessing, and from that comes mastery, growth, and progress for our clients and the profession.
Using verbal cues while the client is in a relaxed state and open to suggestion can lead clients in pain to favorably reinterpret the nociceptive (danger-signaling) input.
Kinesiology tape uses medical-grade adhesive to create a microscopic space between the skin and the tissues underneath it, influencing the movement of fluids in the dermal and superficial fascia layers.
Ligaments are dense connective tissue structures composed of elastin that provides a degree of pliability and flexibility, and collagen that gives the tissue tensile strength.
Persistent Lyme disease symptoms are common and serious, but the health-care community is deeply divided about how to care for patients with this problem. Here's how massage therapists can help.
Many times, mistakes on our part, such as sloppy draping, are made due to carelessness, without any conscious intent to do something unprofessional. Clients who don’t know us well may not know the difference between carelessness and intention.
After a full day working with clients, massage therapists can develop their own sore, stiff muscles. Using a foam roller before and after a workday can help alleviate some of those pains.
We’re all familiar with the shortages of oil, gas, computer chips, lumber, and, most recently, baby formula. But back in April 2020, at the height of COVID-19 uncertainties, massage and bodywork product wholesalers were predicting supply chain woes.
Competition can conjure a sense of uneasiness, but looking at it in a different way can help you come out of the situation with a renewed sense of self and motivation to grow.
ABMP has launched an extensive instructor 24-course training resource that is free and accessible to all schools and massage educators through April 2023.
The sartorius plays an important role in stabilizing both the hip and knee. It works both synergistically and antagonistically with the tensor fasciae latae, gracilis, and semitendinosus to achieve these important functions.
