Massage Therapy and Holistic Care

MTs Ask: How Can I Create Healthy Therapeutic Relationships?

You know what to do with the body — but what about the mind, heart and spirit of your clients? Entry-level education programs for massage therapy rightly focus on hands-on techniques for being safe and effective with massage modalities, and beyond the skills for manipulating soft tissue, students are offered ethics courses that introduce the […]

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MTs Ask: How Can I Create Healthy Therapeutic Relationships?

You know what to do with the body — but what about the mind, heart and spirit of your clients? Entry-level education programs for massage therapy rightly focus on hands-on techniques for being safe and effective with massage modalities, and beyond the skills for manipulating soft tissue, students are offered ethics courses that introduce the […]

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Is Your Communication Helping or Hurting Your Massage Clients?

Research is indicating that a person’s perception of pain is a complicated matter, predicated in part by a person’s beliefs and experiences. This is why the right words are just as important as the right manual techniques for a beneficial therapeutic session and optimal outcomes. What we say or do not say can influence whether […]

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