January/February 2014

Money, and your ability to manage it, can make or break your business.

By studying early motor development, we learn that all movement patterns are some combination of four basic actions: yield, push, reach, and pull. Learn how to employ push and pull techniques and how to avoid injury.

Informed consent is a process by which a fully informed client consents to participate in the massage treatment. In our line of work, obtaining informed consent is essential.

An adverse effect, or adverse event, is any harmful or undesired outcome. If we’re going to acknowledge that massage is powerful enough to cause positive outcomes, then we also need to recognize it can have negative outcomes, too.

Postural habits start forming from the beginning of life and continue until we die. As you become more mindful of your postural habits, you become aware of how your habits regulate the way you move.

An overstretching and weakness of the gluteus medius may occur in clients with leg-length discrepancy or in those who chronically support weight on one leg. Weakness in the gluteus medius may be observed during postural assessment.

Clinical trials are considered the most meaningful type of study because the investigators have control over what happens to the subjects. These trials are how treatment protocols are frequently developed.

The flip side of having your own practice, though, is someone needs to manage and market that practice on a regular basis.

Whether you are just starting your massage therapy practice or have been in a while, you may have considered working with a chiropractor. But is working with one a win-win for both of you?

Setting limits or boundaries for saying 'no' affirms our values and lets us pursue them more fully.

Read about Doug Nelson treating scapular instability in an adolescent athlete.

A client has pain in his shoulder following a long period of training for a kayak competition. Follow along for how to assess and treat the anterior and lateral shoulder region.

As a massage therapist, you can profoundly and permanently affect neuropathic symptoms in many of your clients.

When I first learned about chair massage I was told that about one in 1,000 people could faint. This had never happened to me in all my years of experience, but once I started providing chair massage, I investigated this phenomenon.

Moving your business? It’s important to understand how a move could impact your ability to practice.