What makes a massage therapist durable? It’s whether or not the MT makes massage adjustments. Wait. What about the things you bring with you into massage, like old injuries, dysfunctions, etc., that affect how you work? Yep, they’re important. And how about: Do you do massage in way that is hard on your body? Absolutely. [...]
Mainstream massage will be connected to mainstream medicine. And if you’re not moving in that direction, I think you’re going to miss out an opportunity. I’m not talking about getting hired by an orthopedist or physical therapist to do medical massage. I’m talking about aligning your massage business with mainstream medicine to serve your clients [...]
You’ll never grow your massage business to the size you want until you test your limits. Don’t get me wrong, I’m the first to admit that limits are important. If you work 7 days a week, you’ll burn out. But sometimes a “limit” doesn’t accurately reflect the moment when you should stop something, and sometimes [...]
As you hunch over your massage table, massage after massage, do you ever get a mental picture of a little, old, humpback woman leaning on her shopping cart in the grocery store? (Suddenly massage body mechanics seem important again, huh?) You may have tried to counter the massage room hunching with cobras and pec stretches, [...]
