Consider a Career in Massage Therapy
Every year, more and more Americans use massage therapy for the many health benefits it offers. As the popularity of massage therapy increases, so does the demand for qualified massage therapists.
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Massage Therapy Can Play Positive Role in Your Mental Health
Michelle Ebbin, massage therapy expert, believes that holistic practices like massage therapy can play a greater role in helping people keep their mental health in check.
Massage Can Support a Woman’s Journey from Menstruation to Menopause
Studies have found that massage can help shorten labor, reduce pain, and improve women’s sense of control during childbirth.
Back Pain: Why Exercise Can Provide Relief – and How To Do It Safely
While you might think you should rest your back if it hurts, being active can actually help relieve your pain and protect you from getting back pain again in the future. This is because our spines are designed to move, bend and lift, which keeps our bones and soft tissues strong and supple.
Considerations for Clients Returning to Massage Therapy
Welcome Back
You’ve booked your first post-pandemic massage session! Now what?
While you’re probably looking forward to your session with a mix of excitement and anticipation, throwing a bit of awareness into the mix will set you up for a successful reentry to bodywork. Specifically, this means creating an awareness of what you really need and want from the session and what your body is ready for.
Massage is for EveryBody
July 18–24, 2021
Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP) invites you to join us July 18–24, 2021, as we reconnect, take a collective deep breath, and celebrate that massage is for every body.
Massage and Emotional Wellness
From PTSD to Depression, Hands-On Work Offers Relief
Massage therapy offers myriad physical benefits, but we sometimes forget everything hands-on treatments can do for our emotional well-being. Let’s take a quick look at the importance of touch and some of the specific ways it can help our mental and emotional health.
Treating Wrist Tendonitis with Trigger Point & Red Light Therapy
Tendonitis (or tendinopathy) is a common injury that can be caused by sports, accidents, or repetitive use of a body part. It is marked by pain and soreness in the connective tissue and it is often a persistent injury that sometimes doesn’t go away with the usual protocol of rest and ice. For an athlete or a computer programmer who uses their wrist on a daily basis, wrist tendonitis can be devastating—even disabling.
3 Ways to Triumph Over the Work-From-Home Slump
Ergonomics, Stretching, and Mindful Self-Care
While many have dreamed of having a job working from home, none expected to have it launched on them as it was at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even as states begin reopening and businesses start unlocking their doors, many people are continuing to work from home. And many people are starting to feel the “slump.”
Tears and Time: Being Mindful of Your Emotional Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sometimes the feeling quietly creeps up on you. Sometimes it hits you square on the jaw.
No matter how stoic, optimistic, or hopeful we might be in the face of this global pandemic, we are all subject to the onslaught of emotions it brings: Overwhelming sadness. Crisis exhaustion. Unrecognized grief. My moment came two weeks ago when the tears seemed to flow all day.