Practitioners and researchers from manual therapy fields including massage, osteopathy, chiropractic, structural integration and physical therapy met recently to collaboratively discuss the latest insights into manual therapies and to help shape future collaboration and research.
Outside our massage session-room doors, equality and justice are not guaranteed for the LGBTQ community.
The Massage Therapy Foundation conference featured research, by academicians, practitioners and policymakers, related to massage therapy.
In 1975, when I began my career as a licensed massage therapist in Gainesville, Florida, my awareness of success existed but had not yet arrived in my life at the level of fact, conditions and circumstances. I was a young, 24-year-old, African American man proposing to create a highly successful business providing massage therapy services for mostly white Americans.
The Massage Therapy Foundation’s (MTF) new president, Adrienne Asta, LMT, wants to continue a conversation between massage therapists, health care professionals and the public on the benefits and cost-efficiency of massage.
MASSAGE Magazine presents a new series of video interviews between Diane Matkowski of The Massage Mentor Institute and top massage CE instructor
Monkeypox—a rare viral disease that is experiencing a worldwide outbreak, including in the U.S.—presents with a rash and also with symptoms that commonly lead a person to seek out massage therapy.
Disparities—great differences—in health care can include variations in quality of and access to care, in ways groups of people seek care, in the management of chronic conditions, in vaccination rates, in mental health care, health-related habits, pain management and more.
The systems that perpetuate exclusion and inequity are still going strong. There are still many people who are ignorant of these systems and their pervasive nature. The spa and wellness industry, including the massage profession, is an offspring of these systems.
The problems of human trafficking and the sex trade come up in the news all the time, often connected with businesses pretending to operate within the massage therapy industry. Current statistics are grim: According to the U.S. Department of State, an estimated 24.9 million people are victims of human trafficking worldwide at any given time, including many children.