I found the MTF filling my need for our profession and industry to establish and grow a body of scientific knowledge about the effects of massage therapy on the human body and the positive applications of massage for addressing and improving health conditions that many of my clients experience regularly. I thought, “how can I assist in building this library of massage therapy research?”
If a life event, news, or illness is leaving you unusually, deeply, irreconcilably, or incorrigibly depressed, leaving you absent, disabled, or unproductive, then you may be experiencing Clinical Depression - talk with your doctor about how massage therapy may be able to assist in keeping the symptoms of Depression fewer and/or less intense - many doctors know about how massage therapy can assist in reducing the effects of Depression and will be able to refer you to a massage therapist.
Massage enlivens the theory that moving blood, specifically, toward the heart increases vasodilation (venous circumference) which increases the volume of the vein which means transport of nutrients and waste in the blood will increase. Movement is life, so moving the fluids is important for the health of the surrounding and affected cells.
At this time, compliance is not mandatory for Bodyworkers in the industry of Alternative Healthcare (unless the information is used in an insurance claim situation), but many Information Technology systems are developing in order to accommodate the eventual governmental requirement. If you didn’t know already, currently it is industry-standard to get a written release form from the Client in order for the Practitioner to give or receive health record information from the Client’s doctor.
When getting any type of manipulation bodywork, remember: ulcers on the skin are common in diabetes patients who have lived with the disease for 10 to 20 years or more – these are areas contraindicated for bodywork. Also, advanced cases of spinal nerve damage, kidney failure, and infected tissue is contraindicated for physical manipulation of the body’s tissues – however, many forms of energetic work, like Reiki and Acupressure, have been effective in assisting the rebalancing of the body’s systems.
