Author: Julie Onofrio
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Chinese Massage Schools
China has a long history of using massage therapy to work with various health conditions and create wellness. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) uses the theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine such as the energy pathways called ‘meridians’, the interplay of the Five Elements, the interplay of yin and yang. Even though TCM has a very long…
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Asian Massage Therapy
Asian Massage Therapy techniques are a legitimate type of massage therapy that is unfortunately often confused with ‘those other types of massage parlors that give happy endings’ or in other words Brothels Doing Business as Massage Parlors/Massage therapists aka Asian Massage Parlors. This needs to stop…but how…we don’t really have an answer or way. Stop…
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Scientific Method
The scientific method is based on a critical thinking process. I am just going to give a brief overview so you get an idea of the process. It is quite complex and best left to scientists who are trained in this. Scientific Papers are created to explain the process they went through in doing the…
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Logical Fallacies
There is a whole list of other types of logical fallacies ( From Excellcior Online Writing Lab) or inaccurate ways of thinking that get in the way of science. The Strawman – A straw man fallacy occurs when someone takes another person’s argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates it in some kind of extreme…
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What gets in the way of Critical Thinking?
So here is the thing… In my previous posts I talked about Science literacy, Science vs Pseudoscience and critical thinking that you might want to read before this post, but the general overview is the massage profession is full of information that has been handed down by tradition and the lack of science creating a…