Tag: massage therapist
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(Video) Kate Jordan: Manual Therapy Treatment for Low Back Pain in Pregnancy
by Kate Jordan, Developer of Bodywork for the Childbearing Year www.katejordanseminars.com/Def… .Kate talks about lower back pain in pregnancy and demonstrates some techniques to use to minimize or eliminate back pain. Kate is using massage equipment created by Oakworks www.massagetables.com Kate Jordan is a pioneer in the field of massage therapy for pregnancy. She has practiced as…
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Holding Headaches at Bay
Bodywork Eases Migraines and Tension Headaches By Cathy Ulrich “Do you get headaches?” I asked Cindy. She had come to see me for massage to address her neck and shoulder pain but hadn’t mentioned headaches.“Well, yes,” she said. “I’ve always had headaches and, now that you mention it, they seem to be worse when my…
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National Massage Therapy Awareness Week Oct 25-31
We are next week celebrating the 19th annual National Massage Therapy Awareness Week – October 25-31, 2015. Massage Therapy Awareness means so much more than just the awareness that massages are good for you. It brings to mind the role that touch plays in our lives. Touch is the first sense to develop in the…
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Grad Chronicles – Rhianna Sanford
by Rhianna Sanford Over the past 10 years I keep coming back to the reality that a good education is paramount in finding fulfillment and maintaining a sustainable practice. When I became a Massage Therapist I felt I had finally found something I loved doing and loved who I was doing it. Becoming a massage…
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What are Energy and Structure? Clarity will Help our Massages!
As you may notice, over the last few weeks in this blog I’ve been focusing mostly on structure/energy, art/science and their integration in bodywork. Bit-by-bit I want to assemble a position paper that helps brings clarity to these things and helps our field take a closer look at integrative healthcare. Thanks for listening and your…
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Massage Therapy: Growing New Arms
The other day I working on a woman who has chronic complaints in her extremities. As I worked, I had a deeper insight into the origins of her pain, tension and discomfort. A Case Study: The Servers Some people are raised to do for others. Their own independent self-expression and the meeting of their own…
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Anatomy Review: Massage for the Scalenes
The scalenes are actually the uppermost of the intercostals muscles, those muscles lying between your ribs that assist inhalation and exhalation. However, big surprise, there are no ribs in the neck! Actually a number of books say the scalenes attach to the vestigial ribs of the cervical vertebrae. That is, little buds appear on the…
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The Calling of Massage Therapy
There are those people who are drawn to play music, and they can not go a day or two without wanting to pick up the guitar. There are those who love writing. Finding words for their experiences gives their lives an essential, deeper meaning. Similarly there are those who are drawn to touch. Touch is…
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David Lauterstein: Massage Therapy Hall of Fame 2011
By David Lauterstein, as published the World Massage Festival, which David has been nominated as a 2011 Hall of Fame inductee. I am David Lauterstein, Co-founder of The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in Austin. I have been a massage therapy teacher since 1982 and therapist since 1977. Here’s my story! I was raised in Chicago by…
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My School’s Logo: The Secret of its Origin.
Tonight in his speech, President Barack Obama said, “For in our hands lies the ability to shape our world.” And it took me right back to the origin of our school’s logo. Years ago I visited a potter’s studio in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. His work was brilliant and inspiring and I left with his brochure.…
