Category: Types of Massage Therapy
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Neuromuscular Therapy
Neuromuscular therapy is a type of massage/manual therapy that is often confusingly referred to as deep tissue massage therapy. NMT concentrates Neuromuscular technique (NMT) is a method of diagnostic and therapeutic value, which is simple in it’s application yet has enormous potential. ~Leon Chaitow. Soft Tissue Manipulation History of Neuromuscular therapy Taken mostly from NMT…
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Guidelines for Receiving Deep Tissue Massage
Be in constant communication with your practitioner. It is important to tell your practitioner what you want worked on and then tell them when things hurt, how painful it feels, where does it radiate to, when to apply more pressure and most importantly, when to STOP. Be willing to express the pain. Move with the pain or…
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Guidelines for Giving Deep Tissue Massage
Guidelines for Giving a Deep Tissue Massage Session. Be in communication with your client. Find out what areas need to be addressed and how the person feels to start with. Is there pain, tightness, numbness or tingling anywhere? Ask them to assign a number to the level of pain they are feeling – on a scale…
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Deep Tissue Massage Therapy
Deep Tissue Massage Therapy is defined by the Massage Therapy Body of Knowledge as: “Deep Tissue – Description of the tissues beneath superficial structures which are being treated and not the techniques employed. This term is commonly misused to describe a specific technique. Deep Tissue Work/Massage– A generic term commonly used to describe a variety…
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Traditional Healing Methods in the massage profession
The massage profession also includes many traditional healing methods that are not scientifically supported. It is important to understand Science Literacy and pseudoscience to understand the role traditional healing methods have in the massage profession. From my post on Science Literacy: It can help inform the science community of things to be studied. Many types…