Author: Julie Onofrio
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MT BOK part 2
Part One, MT BOK Here. Links go to archive.org to copy of original website. Task Force Member BiographiesBryan Fong, LMT, MBA, NCTMBMegan E. Lavery, LMT, CZB, NCTMBKevin Pierce, LMT, MBASusan G. Salvo, BEd, LMT, NTS, CI, NCTMBSteven Schenkman, BS, LMTDawn M. Schmidt, BS, LMTJoEllen SeftonMichael Shea, PhD, LMTChip Hines, MS, PMP, LMT, NCTMB Bryan Fong,…
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Massage Therapy Body of Knowledge (BOK)
Final Documents of BOK as accessed from archive.org from the original website www.mtbok.org (https://web.archive.org/web/20190430194533/http://www.mtbok.org/) MT BOK Website from archive.org Download the whole website in a Word .doc or Adobe PDF. Article: Developing, Maintaining, and Using a Body of Knowledge for the Massage Therapy Profession, International Journal of Massage and Bodywork, 09/21/2011. JoEllen M. Sefton ,…
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Massage Therapy Defined
Best Practices Forum Clarifying Definitions for the Massage Therapy Profession: the Results of the Best Practices Symposium Massage is a patterned and purposeful soft-tissue manipulation accomplished by use of digits, hands, forearms, elbows, knees and/or feet, with or without the use of emollients, liniments, heat and cold, hand-held tools or other external apparatus, for the…
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Master Muscle List
Competencies as per ELAP: Recite Muscle Name Identify Directional Position State General Attachments State Specific Attachment Sites State Primary Action State a 2nd Action State a 3rd Action Outline Shape & Fiber Direction Place Muscle Short & Long Positions Perform Isometric Contraction Palpate Origin Palpate Insertion Palpate Muscle Belly Head, Neck and Jaw…
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How to set your massage rates.
Setting your massage rates involves knowing what you need to make to be successful and stay in business along with pricing your rates to be affordable by your target market or ideal massage client. So often massage therapists set their rates low thinking that it will get you more massage clients because you will be…