If you’re coming out of a massage and your arms and shoulders are shot, you’re doing one thing very wrong. You’re not using your legs. I don’t mean you should be sticking a knee in the lumbar erectors. (Though I have thought about that…) What I mean is that you’re not using your legs to [...]
As a neuromuscular massage therapist, I would do anything to reach a muscle attachment—even if it meant sacrificing a thumb or a finger. But after many years of “going for attachments”, I started to run out of thumbs and fingers. For the next decade I worked on figuring out how I could massage hard-to-reach attachments [...]
As you’re building your massage practice, you don’t want to burn bridges—with clients, referral sources and other health care professionals. But there may be a time when acting in your client’s best interest means that you must speak up. Here’s how I recently got my point across to my client without throwing the doctor under [...]
If you’re waiting to feel like a pro before you open your massage practice, you’re wasting precious time. Instead of waiting, think about doing the opposite: put yourself out there. Putting yourself out there means that no matter how uncomfortable you feel and/or how low your confidence is, you are in front of the people [...]
