Massage School Notes

Myofascial Release and Fascia

Posted by Julie Onofrio on August 29, 2010 at 6:20 pm

What do you know about myofascial release and fascia?  Well I didn’t know much before this weekend.
Today I am starting a new thing which is posting blogs posts here to share my latest pages that I am creating on my websites.  This weekend was spent researching myofascial release and a new page in the types [...]

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Massage and cancer

Posted by Julie Onofrio on October 9, 2009 at 6:56 pm

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.
There [...]

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Massage Ethics Classes

Posted by Julie Onofrio on August 19, 2009 at 8:48 pm

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

Posted by Julie Onofrio on July 23, 2009 at 6:26 pm

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

Posted by Julie Onofrio on July 21, 2009 at 6:14 pm

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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