Massage therapist Davonna Willis, LMT, ATC, created and is co-coordinating (with Massage Banquets promoter Ashley Urquhart) the first Black Massage Therapist Conference, taking place Oct. 14 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
MASSAGE Magazine spoke with Helene M. Langevin, M.D., the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) director, in a Zoom interview, to get her insights into and updates about how the NCCIH’s strategic plan is progressing, especially in terms of massage therapy-related research.
An association focused on enhancing safety in the massage and spa industry is putting an end to the dangerous pattern of a spa-service employee breaching safety protocols at one spa and then, after quitting or being terminated, securing employment at another franchise location with no knowledge of their prior situation.
The Veterans Administration Community Care program has approved Zeel in order to connect massage therapists with military veterans. Zeel is now recruiting massage therapists from across the nation for its Massage for Veterans program.
This selection of massage news articles will help you keep on top of what’s happening in the massage therapy industry.
Lynda Solien-Wolfe, LMT, was a cheerleader for the massage industry since earning her license in 1993.
At Be Well Madison, a community wellness clinic, massage therapy is not just a luxury reserved for those with extra disposable income. Massage is also being used as a tool to change the lives of low-income older adults living with chronic pain, largely thanks to community center outreach and a two-years-in-a-row Community Service Grant award from the Massage Therapy Foundation (MTF).
Massage Makes Me Happy & Healthy Day, held annually March 20, gives massage therapists tools and information to help them support the public in understanding the benefits of massage—and also learn more, themselves, about massage’s effect on human physiology.
Current U.S. state legislative sessions have seen the introduction of many bills that, if signed into laws, could affect massage therapists.
It is important to consider how massage research can be based on and ideally reflect massage practice. Where, for example, is the best place for massage research to be done? The logical response is: in the massage therapy practice.