An overview of general articles about Massage Therapy. For specific massage treatment modalities you may visit our topics about Thai Massage, Japanese Massage, or Tantra Massage, among others.
Pregnancy is such ennobling work, full of joy and great anticipation—just a few physical discomforts. As a new life enters the body, it starts to change and adjust accordingly, bringing pains to the back, swelling [ Read more … ]
You may notice that so-called trigger points (i.e. myofascial trigger points) are sometimes equated with acupressure points. And indeed, sometimes an acupressure points may also be (or act as) a trigger point (or vice versa), [ Read more … ]
In this post, we’ll discuss the applications, aims, and health benefits of Abdominal Massage for pregnant women. Prenatal Massage therapy — notably for the legs, knees, feet and ankles, hips, pelvic region, and the lower [ Read more … ]
Intra-Oral Massage, also written Intraoral Massage, is a therapeutic massage modality that’s most specifically aimed at alleviating or curing TMJ Dysfunction, although people also undergo the treatment for reduction of facial and neck tensions, improvement [ Read more … ]
Sometimes you’ll see advertising of Lesbian Massage, and in this post we take a look at what it actually means and what you can expect. Although it’s often thought that a Lesbian Massage is “something [ Read more … ]
Individuals who identify with the LGBTQIA+ community (or alternatively LGBTQ+ or LGBT+) want and need massage therapy just like anyone else. Nevertheless, it can be quite an ordeal for transgender and gender diverse clients or [ Read more … ]
Postural Integration® is a type of holistic bodywork created by Jack Painter (1933 – 2010) in the 1960s. It’s usually practiced by professional health practitioners working with both bodywork and Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. The treatment is [ Read more … ]
Massage therapy is an important and abundantly used treatment modality in Body De-Armoring practices. Giving sustained pressure and acupressure or applying stretches to tensed, contracted, or numbed bodily areas that are associated with repressed or [ Read more … ]
One of the important things I experienced as a massage therapist in client assessment sessions is that one needs to be extremely vigilant and really scrutinize the answers a client gives to our questions. There [ Read more … ]
Movement Assessment in massage therapy and bodywork is about analyzing the client’s movement performance during functional tasks to see if there are any abnormalities, particularities, or obstructions in the way they move. Examples of functional [ Read more … ]