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Massage therapy and pain
In massage school, the main focus of your learning will be on learning the muscles, actions, pathology and learning how to safely give a massage. We often come to associate the act of giving a massage with loosening tight muscles and often see that it helps with reducing and even eliminating pain. When we do…
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California Massage Schools
In California, most anyone can hang out a sign and become a massage therapists without any professional licensing requirements. Most all other states require specific training and licensing requirements. The California Massage Therapy Council offers a Voluntary Certification. Here are the requirements for massage therapy certification in CA. There is no massage licensing requirements. To…
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Intraoral massage
Intraoral massage is a type of massage that works inside the mouth to work with cases of TMJ, other jaw pain and disorders. Hawaii Massage Board — ruling that intraoral massage does fall under the definition of massage. Nov 2, 2016 board meeting notes. (PDF) WA State – Requires 16 hour CE class to be…
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Metaphysics, magical thinking, and beliefs
Many people drawn to the massage profession also come from beliefs in metaphysics and magical thinking. Metaphysics asks the questions: “what is it?”, “why is it?”, and “how do we understand it?”. Metaphysics is difficult to define. The simplest definition is: metaphysics is a set of views about the nature of the world taken as a…
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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…