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What to Expect

Many people have questions about receiving their first massage. Here are answers to some typical questions and concerns about your first massage or bodywork session.

How Long Should I Wait to Exercise After a Massage or Bodywork Session?

Exercising right after a session can both increase muscle soreness and compromise the value of the soft-tissue work you’ve just received.

Fibularis Muscle And Tendon Injuries

If you’ve strained one of your fibularis tendons, the pain in your ankle will let you know something is wrong, but you’ll probably have a hard time identifying the fibularis as a source of the trouble.

Mature man on mountain bike rubbing a sore lower back.

5 Common Causes of Muscle Aches & Tension

Almost every massage therapist has encountered a client with chronically tense muscles that are so stiff it takes great effort to massage them. Others quietly suffer from muscle aches that affect both their work and leisure time, making them miserable. Some people don’t even know they are tense, while others are aware but have no idea why. There are dozens of less-common medical conditions that can cause stiff muscles, such as Lyme’s disease or lupus, but the following 5 reasons are among the most common.

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5 Powerful Self-Care Tools That Relieve Pain & Tension

Massage therapy has powerful healing properties. There is simply nothing that compares to the warmth and precision of real human touch. But modern life has become so tense and stressful that an increasing number of clients are suffering from chronic tension: painful muscle spasms and conditions like fibromyalgia, where they feel a diffuse discomfort almost every day.

Why Too Much Sitting Is Bad for Your Health

Adults are now sitting around more than at any other time in history. And there can be rather serious consequences. Some authors have gone so far as to describe chronic, prolonged sitting as “the new smoking,” a deadly habit.

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Staying Stable by Being Variable

As a pathology educator, I am often called on to describe situations in which bodywork must be adjusted to be safe for a client who has some kind of health-related limitation. I describe a person’s ability to receive massage therapy or bodywork safely as “adaptive capacity.” This term makes sense to me, but others may find it less clear, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to explain what I mean.

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Life of Negotiation

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