The Chiropractic Connection:
Where Muscles and Joints Meet

As many massage therapists and chiropractors have discovered, working together the two professions create a dynamic duo that doubly benefits their individual practices and their clients’ health. For massage therapists, numerous benefits can be derived from working for a chiropractor, including hands-on experience in a professional environment, continuing education in physiology and anatomy, and an opportunity to get your name into the community.

by Kelle Walsh, Managing Editor

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Business with Pleasure: How to Combine CEU-Earning with Vacations

The next time you plan to go on retreat, take a cruise or travel abroad, check out the continuing-education opportunities available. From learning massage techniques aboard ship to studying Thai massage in Asia, the possibilities for sightseeing while meeting your CEU requirements are bountiful.

Massage for Horse and Rider
Meet Cindi Gill, a dual-certified massage therapist, qualified to soothe aching equine and human muscles alike.

Go Green!
The Way Your Practice Can Help (or Harm) the Environment

Massage therapy has an environmental impact, and it is bigger than we might think. The good news is that there are many changes—some small, some more substantial—you can make in the way you run your practice that will have a positive impact on our environment.

Strategies to Address
Forward-Head Postures
Part Two: Bringing the Body Back into Balance

The neck is burdened with the difficult task of supporting the human head. Because of the tension, trauma and poor posture inherent in today’s workplace, neck-related imbalances are some of the most common conditions clients experience.

An Extreme Green Spa

Nusta Spa provides an example of how the average spa or massage practice can achieve environmentally responsible, sustainable goals through the selection of building materials and products.

PRACTICE BUILDING
Marketing Massage through the
Power of Radio

Spa Massage News
2006 Spa Trends
Spas receive insurance coverage
Coldwater Creek to open spas
Men need spa education

Diabetes:
Massage is a Valued Therapy

In the United States there are more than 20 million people living with diabetes and another 41 million living with pre-diabetes. As this epidemic grows, massage therapists are likely to see clients with this condition. Here, learn how to offer the physical and psychological benefits of massage to diabetic clients.

Research Reports
Swedish Massage Lowers Blood Pressure
Oil Massage Improves Weight Gain in Low Birth Weight Preterm Neonates
Massage Is Effective in Alleviating Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness

RESEARCH MATTERS
Clinical case reports

Be Well: Therapist Self-Care
Top of Your Game Feel your best all day
Try this energy-booster between appointments
Help for arthritis
Your Turn Annie Gray
Get the Glow
Natural facelift
Scalene Muscle Release
Feng Shui for Every Day

SEEDS OF SUCCESS
Where to spend your advertising
dollars; how to choose CEU courses
by Charlotte Versagi