Category: News
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Why are Massage School Enrollments Down?
Massage School enrollments are down across the US and more and more franchises are opening every day. There are more jobs available than there are massage therapists to fill the positions. There are so many massage franchises opening up it is really changing the direction of the profession. The massage franchises came onto the scene…
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Massage Quotes
Massage Quotes On Touch and Healing Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate the signs of distress. How can it be that we overlook its usefulness on the jangled adult as well? What is it that leads us…
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Masseuse – Masseur – Massage Therapist – What’s in a name?
Masseuse/Masseur is the French translation of a person who practices massage and physiotherapy professionally( masseuse is the female, masseur the male). The terms come from the French word masser. I found this information on the origins of the word on a forum discussion of word origins: The official dictionary of the French language says the…
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Defining Massage Therapy and Bodywork. The thorn in our professional side.
Defining massage therapy is a big challenge for the massage profession. Each state already defines it for themselves. I started a list of these definitions of massage a long time ago and I am sure some have now changed and new ones were added by states who just initiated massage licensing. There is also a…
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To the Massage Researchers
One of the problems I see from attending the research conference (2010 Seattle) and thinking about research is that there seems to be more than just a vocabulary problem in understanding research and using it to create evidence based practices and to use research to get and keep clients. Whitney Lowe touched on it in…