ELAP recommendations: Massage Equipment and Enviroment: Conditions: Having completed 2.5 hours of instruction on equipment and session environments, the learner is expected to:• Demonstrate knowledge of the key terms and concepts related to massageequipment and session environments, including types of equipment and features,lubricants, supplies, and factors for creating a comfortable, inviting, and safesession space, on […]
Massage Theory
The depth in deep tissue massage
Deep tissue massage therapy is one of those very confusing terms often used by massage therapists, massage schools and others. Refer to this updated article on deep tissue massage. Learning deep tissue massage is one of the many things you can do to set yourself apart from all of the other massage therapists out there. […]
Deep Tissue Massage – Outdated terminology.
Deep Tissue Massage is a term used by massage therapists that describes the amount of pressure that is applied during a massage or it can also mean a technique that focuses on releasing the deeper myofascial restrictions of the deeper muscles, tendon and ligaments of the body. This work is also sometimes referred to as myofascial […]
Timeline History of Pain Theories
The term for pain appeared for the first time in the ancient medical book Huang Di Nei Jing (Book on amazon.com) more than 3000 years ago, translated into English as The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine by Veith in 1966 and The Medical Classic of the Yellow Emperor by Zhu in 2001. Pain was […]
Swedish Massage Techniques
Contrary to popular belief, Swedish Massage was not created by anyone from Sweden. The History of Swedish massage by Robert Calvert describes where Swedish massage came from. Per Ling a Swedish Physiologist and gymnastics instructor created something known as the Swedish Movements or Swedish Movement Cure (link to Massage Today Article: November, 2010, Vol. 10, […]