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Health Maintenance: Preventative Care for Hands and Bodies
Carpal tunnel, tendonitis, and thoracic outlet syndrome are far too common in the bodywork profession. Chronic back, neck, and shoulder pain shorten many a lucrative career, but most of this is preventable. This article will show you how with tips on body alignment, weight shift, joint protection, developing hand and core body strength, increasing body energy, and regular maintenance.
Ah, What Relief! Deep Tissue Sculpting for Low-Back Pain
Therapists need a clear understanding of, and a straightforward approach to, addressing lumbar pain. This article will introduce you to using the gentle, but penetrating approach of deep-tissue sculpting, to using your ability to observe structural organization, and to directing your clients toward appropriate activities and self-care.
The Pregnant Pelvis
This article overviews safe and effective ways for the massage therapist to address prenatal complaints originating from the spine and pelvis. Major topics include sources of peripartum pelvic pain, recommended modalities to address this common discomfort, and safety guidelines of pain and pressure level, positioning, blood clots, ligamental laxity, and complications of pregnancy.
An Interview with Carole Osborne (BC Practitioner)
This 1998 interview with Carole offers insight into the history and development of her work and its context in the midwifery and research fields.
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Excerpts from "Exclusive Interview with Carole Osborne-Sheets (Massage Magazine)
This 1993 interview Carole reflects her work and life at about 17 years into her somatic career.
Healing Touch for Adult Children of Alcoholics
Nurturing touch is a natural part of a healthy, functioning family unit; however, the children of alcoholic and other dysfunctional families often grow up experiencing primarily abusive touch, such as violent beatings, sexual abuse, and/or neglect, both physical and emotional. Therapeutic massage and bodywork can provide a safe context for healing from these types of early traumatic experiences. Although published in 1989, this article’s overview of somato-emotional integration still offers direction to today’s practitioners.
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Pediatric Massage (Linda Hickey)
Great fun and profound health benefits await the therapist working with toddlers and older children. This article will get your started with hints for positioning, pressure, technique with storytelling and parental involvement.
Positioning Concerns for Prenatal Massage Therapy
The question most practitioners consider first when contemplating massaging pregnant women is how to accommodate that ripe belly. Safety, comfort and therapeutic effectiveness affect both prone and supine positions during pregnancy. These same considerations point favorably to working with expectant women while they lie on their side.
Supporting Pregnancy with Massage Therapy
Nurturing touch during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period is not a new concept. Cultural and anthropological studies reveal that massage and movement during the childbearing experience was and continues to be a prominent part of many cultures’ healthcare. Studies indicate that most of the more peaceful cultures use touch prominently during pregnancy and early childhood. Midwives, who for centuries have provided maternity care, have highly developed hands-on skills.
Massage Therapists & Body Workers
Traumatic birth experiences and sexual abuse assault a woman’s body as well as her emotions. When both tissues and feelings need to heal, bodyworkers and massage therapists can be ideal facilitators. They specialize in touch methodologies combined with education of their clients on the structure and function of the affected body parts. Their professional skills increase their clients’ awareness and understanding of the connection between their feeling states, memories, and physical experience.
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