On the Radical RMT podcast, host/creator Krista Dicks asked me why it’s important to know how to massage pain-free. The obvious answer is that a lot of pain will send you to an early retirement. The less obvious and more life-force-sucking answer is that any amount of pain could limit you from reaching your full potential as a massage therapist.
Don’t take my word for it. Ask yourself what happens when you massage in pain, and I think you’ll get an answer similar to this: You avoid deep pressure clients and seek out light pressure ones. You struggle to keep your head in the game because each massage hurts you—literally. And your dream of building a massage business or making more money evaporates because pain limits the number of massages you can do in a day/week/year.
Unfortunately, it’s worse than that because the physical pain you feel in the massage room just doesn’t stay in the massage room. You take it with you, and life activities that increase your pain get nixed. In the worst-case, pain scenario, life becomes a job of not exacerbating your pain.
I get it.
Pain limited me for a good part of my massage career. Finally, when my body said enough is enough, I had to make a decision—quit massage or fix the pain.
I chose the latter.
In this book I share with you all the strategies and techniques that eliminated my pain in the massage room and allowed me to increase my massage productivity so that I could create the massage business that I wanted.
By the way, this book is designed to get results fast. With some pain-free massage techniques you’ll immediately be able to try out on paying customers, no matter if you’re new to massage or a seasoned practitioner, like me. With other techniques you’ll have to put in some practice time on friends, colleagues and/or non-paying clients. Also, I want to mention that I provide links in the chapters to instructional videos so that you can see how I do the specific techniques and strategies that I teach.
Lastly, it’s my goal to help you build a massage lifestyle without limitations, starting with not sacrificing your body in the massage room, and I think this book is the foundation for that.
For the paperback edition ($19.99), go here: Amazon.
For the e-book version ($12.99), go here: Pain-Free Massage Therapist.
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Hi Mark, Congratulations on the book finally coming out. I really liked your Chapter 1. will be back to buy the book soon. It was delightful, funny, informative, Pretty soon the Liskey methods will (finally ) be taught in every LMT school!
Namaste’,
Leslie in Sarasota
Thanks, Leslie! It has been a push to the finish line, but almost there! I appreciate the support and I like your idea of the chance to share my information in every LMT school:-) I hope you are doing well, and I’m curious about your potential project that we talked about a while back. Let me know how I can help!