My Pathology Section at www.thebodyworker.com is one of the most popular sections. I get mostly non-massage therapists searching for help for their ailments. It is a great opportunity to provide real information about what massage can do for such diseases and conditions.
I am updating the Pathology Section to include the many online articles as reference for various diseases and conditions. Ruth Werner in her book “A massage Therapists guide to Pathology” says “Pathology is the study of the nature and causes of diseases as related to the structure and function of the human body.”
There is much controversy over many diseases and conditions and should massage be applied to people with them. 17 years ago when I first started, cancer was a major contraindication. We were told just stay away from anyone with cancer. I always thought it that massage could do more for someone with cancer because of the stress related to that disease. That has greatly changed through the years with a whole branch of massage that now focuses on cancer mainly because of the work of a few therapists who challenged the status quo and stood up and actually researched and studied cancer and massage.
There is also much controversy over actually having a diagnosis and how it places people in a category or how it is really a subjective thing in many cases – does someone have cancer or do they just have cells that can’t repair themselves due to toxins, poor diet, poor air quality or whatever. Diagnosing conditions can have a negative affect on people, but it also can help focus the search for the actual cause of each condition or disease and help heal.
Personally, I don’t think any condition that is contraindicated should be studied more to determine if it is really true.
I hope to have a pdf file made after I have completed it all so you can purchase and download the whole thing without the advertisements.
If you have any great references or resources let me know so I can add them to the website. It is a great educational opportunity for our profession.
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What kind of response are you looking for from your articles?
Articles are just about eduation and creating professionalism.
Creating content on a website also attracts search engines and helps to build trust with the reader enough that they will call.
I think having a newsletter online and a printed one is a great marketing tool. You can do it in a blog format or an actual email newsletter.
Sitebuidit! comes with newsletter software and many other hosting companies have some kind of mailing list software.
Your website is kinda confusing to me as I thought you were a guy at first and I thought you were promoting yourself to the gay male population.
Julie,
I have articles on my website. I never get any responses from them.
I’m curious about having a newsletter subscription on my website.
What’s your thoughts/opinion on it?
Thanks,
Kimberly