Massage Therapy

It’s an interesting fact that massage therapy can relax the receiver and relieve them from stress and anxiety, can improve their overall blood circulation and widen blood veins, and may subsequently contribute to lowering high [ Read more … ]

Much depending on the country or state requirements, massage therapists and bodyworkers may be obliged to let clients fill out a so-called Client Intake Form. Often, this form will also include some kind of disclaimer [ Read more … ]

Pain Assessment can be a rather difficult domain for therapists, because although pain is considered an objective sensation it’s mixed with highly subjective perceptions. For instance, some people experience a hamstring stretch as pain because [ Read more … ]

Behavioral Assessment in massage therapy and bodywork has some overlap with Job and Lifestyle Assessment, but more specifically tries to understand if the client’s health problems may be behavioral in nature, as opposed to medical. [ Read more … ]

Range of Motion Assessment — also called ROM Assessment — can tell massage and bodywork therapists a lot about the client’s “state of the body.” ROM Assessment characteristically involves gauging the (proper) movement of the [ Read more … ]

Cultural Assessment in massage therapy or bodywork sounds perhaps farfetched, but it can be of more importance than a therapist may initially think. In fact, cultural competency in healthcare practices is about effectively operating in [ Read more … ]

A massage therapy or bodywork client can tell us a lot, we can see many things, but actually touching and feeling the client’s body is of course likewise indispensable to come to a more complete [ Read more … ]

Postural Assessment typically involves observing the client’s posture when standing, sitting, or lying down, while coming to possible conclusions about a relationship between their posture and the client’s complaints. Although it’s increasingly asserted that “bad [ Read more … ]

Classical Diagnosis as practiced in modern medicine typically looks at the symptoms a patient has or experiences, and gives that set of symptoms a name. The name that’s given to the symptom(s) is called a [ Read more … ]