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Massaging Clients with Dementia
... What makes it so rewarding is how beneficial it is to the clients. People with dementia are a uniquely underserved population for the ... wrongly dismissed as being too strong a modality for someone whose body has become fragile with age. These caregivers may think of the ...
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Rewarding Work: Massaging Clients with Dementia
... What makes it so rewarding is how beneficial it is to the clients. People with dementia are a uniquely underserved population for the ... wrongly dismissed as being too strong a modality for someone whose body has become fragile with age. These caregivers may think of the ...
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Touch for Homeless Clients
... touch of massage to a population most people shun. Her clients are sometimes dirty, sometimes inebriated, and sometimes violent. They ... it can really change how someone views the world. For people whose only contact with other humans has been violent or exploitive, having ...
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Staying Stable by Being Variable
... is wrong, wrong, wrong. Instead, when we have a client whose health is challenged, our job is to try to determine their adaptive ... can almost always figure out a way to work safely, even with clients whose health is compromised. And, although this is a simple idea, it ...
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Handle with Care
... softness and light into the lives of hospitalized children whose days are filled with continual rounds of pokes, prods, and painful ... who are hospitalized or in hospice care. “Some of our clients may only want you to hold their hand and talk to them,” Allen says. ...
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Stop Judging Your Beautiful Self
... to myself,” said the 45-year-old Colorado mother of two, whose own mother and brother are massage therapists. “If I’m on a weight ... they negotiate this potential psychological minefield with clients. “What you see may not be what they’re seeing,” says Rose, ...
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Survival Sense
... Care Professional member. If your associate can cover your clients while you’re away, it could reap benefits for both of you. She’ll ... Jeffrey Kent is a Denver-based freelance writer whose work has appeared in Alternative Medicine, American PHOTO, Adventure ...
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Oncology: Cancer and Human Connection
... a challenge, but it’s not for everyone. Massage for cancer clients has moved from the “no-touch” zone to center court, bringing with ... supervised in this specialized field. Gayle MacDonald, whose book Medicine Hands: Massage Therapy for People with Cancer was a ...
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Smooth Moves
... until their body finally gives out on them." Hattori--whose client list includes an impressive lineup of pro football players and PGA ... Teachworth, a massage therapist from Orlando, Fla., whose clients include pro golfers Annika Sorenstam, Se Ri Pak and Ernie Els, says the ...
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Bodywork as Meditation
... engaged in disciplines that are thought of as intense and whose work is generally described as deep-tissue manipulation — work such as ... emotional work and homework questions to be filled out by clients between sessions to deepen the emotional nature of their experience of ...