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While massage therapists do not perform diagnostic imaging, understanding its role and limitations in identifying rotator cuff pathologies can enhance client education and interprofessional communication.

Copers are people who can return to full activity after an ACL injury. ACL surgery is effective at reducing joint laxity; however, there is no difference in joint laxity between copers and noncopers. Noncopers can become copers through training, with proprioception, strength, and expectations about recovery being the most significant factors that distinguish copers from noncopers.

Massage therapists and bodyworkers can incorporate nerve mobilization methods with massage and other manual therapy techniques to help resolve common soft-tissue conditions like carpal tunnel, thoracic outlet syndrome, hip pain, and more.

Great work necessitates mastering certain fundamentals, yet the result of all that work is something far greater.

By helping clients become more aware of how they move, the Feldenkrais Method provides powerful ways to support easier and better-organized movement and function.

Techniques that pin, twist, sling, and resist help clients engage with painful movement barriers by introducing novel stimuli that hold the brain’s attention.

Expressing a genuine interest in the client’s complaint is the first step to building trust between you and them. Knowing what information to delve into is part experience, part strategy.

Although there may be no way to completely relieve the existential pathos of aging and physical change, in our role as practitioners, we can be both companions and comforters to our clients who are experiencing physical and emotional loss.

Rolf Movement Integration practitioners are trained to work with a person’s gravity response as the basis to evoke movement that is more effective and authentically expressive, uses less effort, minimizes counterproductive muscular contraction, and more.

The benefits of decompression breathing are cumulative and exponential and flourish with a dedicated practice.

The intimacy and personal connection of massage and bodywork can play a large part in the ability to nourish, comfort, and heal.

There 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.