You Don’t Have to Get Through it Perfectly
We invited psychotherapist and massage therapist, Tim Clark, in for a chat. Tim addresses some of the most common mental health questions massage therapists have posed.
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Mythbusting: Does Massage Therapy Flush Toxins? Part 2
You’ve heard it so many times, it must be true. Massage really does vanquish the toxin demons. With the aid of her trusty Vodkamatic2000, Rebecca Barnett gives us the real story.
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Massage in the Time of Bushfire Crisis
With vast amounts of southern and eastern Australia devastated by bushfires this summer, how can massage therapists provide best care to clients affected by bushfires, and how can they avoid becoming overwhelmed? Tim Clark is here to help.
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2020: Our training package qualifications in focus
There’s been a lot of rumours flying around about the proposed new Advanced Diploma of Massage. Rebecca Barnett attempts to set the record straight and articulates AMT’s formal position on the new qualification.
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Working With Clients Who Have Experienced Assault Part 2
Robert Libbey RMT shares practical advice for massage therapists working with clients who have experienced assault and sexual assault in part 2 of our series. Content warning: assault, sexual assault, rape
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From The Archives – Or Is It?
From the dusty depths of the AMT archives comes this surprisingly still current article from June 2009. We also ask not what your association can do for you but what you can do for your association.
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Is massage therapy part of Australia’s national pain plan?
The Australian Government has just released the National Strategic Action Plan for Pain Management 2019. We think Massage Therapists can and should play a role. Read on …
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The Top 10 of Being a Massage Therapist
Have you forgotten the basics of being a massage therapist? New to massage and want to learn what keeps massage therapists focused? We asked a bunch of wise massage therapists to tell us what they believe are the foundations of being a massage therapist.
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Multiple Sclerosis, Massage and Me
Research continues to show that massage may help with symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis but what does massaging someone with MS look like? We speak to a couple of people with MS about their experience of massage.
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Whose Approval Do We Seek?
Do massage therapists have a professional esteem problem? Or do we have a problem with believing the data? Rebecca Barnett asks, what will it take for massage therapists to accept that we’re looking pretty fine?
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