Massage and cancer

Massage and Cancer used to be taboo when I first started out 20 years ago as a massage therapist.  Massage school used to tell us that it was strictly forbidden to do massage on anyone with cancer or who had survived cancer thinking that working on tumors would dislodge them and cause cancer to spread.
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Massage Ethics Classes

Massage Ethics Classes are often a required part of  massage licensing renewal.   They are also a part of renewing your National Certification through the NCBTMB if you are required to have that.
Ethics classes used to seem like the most boring part of being a massage therapist but studying ethics now seems like the only thing [...]

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Emotions and Massage

It is fairly common knowledge that emotions are a part of bodywork and massage -isnt’ it?  I was once again shocked by the massage therapists on indeed.com who had never heard that the two were related.  Feelings are all in the body which is why there is so much focus on ethics, boundaries and learning [...]

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Therapeutic Swedish Massage

There seems to be some controversy over what exactly is therapeutic Swedish Massage.  Swedish massage is the basic method of massage that is taught in massage school to beginning massage therapists.
Some people get it confused with just being relaxation massage.  While it is probably the main method used for relaxation it is not the only [...]

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How to give a perfect massage

How to give a perfect massage was one of the questions being asked on yahoo answers.  Actually what they were asking more specifically was what would be your perfect massage?
I thought it was quite an interesting question since it really couldn’t be answered.
What makes a perfect massage is what is right for each individual.  It [...]

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