Technique

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.

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.

Grief isn’t something to be fixed but held, allowing clients to process it at their own pace without judgment or urgency.

When working with clients with shoulder discomfort, massage therapists often disregard or forget to consider the sternoclavicular joint.

Variations of nerve injuries warrant understanding their differences in helping clients experiencing neuropathic pain.