What is the right massage table height for you? It is the table height that allows you to effectively deliver force without hurting your body. You’ll need to experiment to figure out what table height setting works best for you. In a few minutes I’ll give you my recommendations. But first, I have a question [...]
The multifidus and rotatores are in the lamina groove. Early on in my career, I shied away from anything close to the spinous processes. But neuromuscular therapy taught me that these muscles can be influenced and clients REALLY like getting them worked. The Deep Back Muscles Here are the multifidus and rotatores: They multifidus stabilizes [...]
In my one office I had spent 10 years without having a massage stool (or anything) to sit on when doing a massage. Yeah, I’m cheap, but that wasn’t the only reason I didn’t have a stool in my massage room. I thought that not sitting would make me stronger, tougher and a more durable [...]
The first conversation that I had with a massage therapist didn’t go well. I was 20-something, working out like crazy, and was dinged up with some overuse injuries. I really wanted to try massage, but massage in the 1980s wasn’t main stream, and finding a legitimate massage person in the Philadelphia, PA suburbs required some [...]
