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 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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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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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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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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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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“The history between a client and therapist, and the consequent deep feelings of mutual respect, can make a massage so important.” AMT Chairperson Michelle McKerron shares a personal story of how some some people are more than clients.
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“As Massage Therapists, we often see people at their most vulnerable. Helping a client through their time of death is taking this vulnerability to the next level.” Tara Goulding shares her experience of providing more than simply a massage.
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From the dusty AMT archive, we travel back to December 2002 and a massage that one might want to forget but never can.
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“If we claim to see massage as a component of a holistic therapy, and feeling depressed is so common, there is much in this book for massage therapists.” Geoffrey Hugh Miller shares his thoughts on Gary Greenberg’s Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease.
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