Massage is defined as the rubbing or kneading of body parts to aid circulation, stimulate nerves or relax the muscles. However, when massages are used for physical and psychological benefits, it is termed therapeutic message or manipulative therapy. Massage therapy often combines massage and the channeling of energy into a balanced, unblocked, transferred, harmonized and [...]
During your career as a massage therapist, you will want to continue your education so you can learn all about new techniques in massage therapy. Although this healing art has been practiced for over 4,000 years, there are always new discoveries being made to improve the healing powers of massage.
Massage therapists can benefit from learning [...]
A quick quiz: What do Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), chronic insomnia, mild seasonal depression, and diabetes all have in common?
They are all ailments with symptoms that can be treated or lessened by the correct applications of massage therapy!
Once considered to be an “alternative” medicine practice, working much like a placebo drug, massage therapy is continuing [...]
