Clients who have had head injuries can most benefit when their massage therapist makes them feel safe.
It's important to know the slight differences between fainting (syncope), and feeling faint, dizzy, or lightheaded.
Everyone is at risk of skin cancer, regardless of skin color.
While manual therapies do not stop the progression of Alzheimer's disease or dementia, they can help improve the patient's quality of life.
Clients with fibromyalgia deserve our appreciation and respect, even though they might present some special challenges for practitioners.
With stroke being as prevalent as it is, there's a strong possibility that most massage therapists will encounter a client who has endured a stroke. Knowing how to best care for those clients is imperative.
GLP-1 RAs are effective and relatively low-risk interventions to manage diabetes and weight. However, we have no information about how massage therapy fits with them.
The most important thing about diabetes signs and symptoms is that this disease can present very differently from one person to another.
Most people with diabetes deal with some complications, and this situation must influence decisions about massage therapy.
Numerous studies support massage therapy for improving sleep quality, reducing constipation, improving self-reported quality of life, maintaining flexibility, and other benefits that speak to the varied experiences of people with Parkinson's disease.
While massage therapy in this instance is safe, following the guidelines outlined in this article can reduce and/or prevent complications to the client and practitioner.
Chiari malformation involves a herniation of part of the brain into the spinal cord, which may involve severe and chronic headaches, hydrocephalus, weakness, dizziness, and much more.
The benefits massage therapy has to offer this population are substantial: Our work may help with pain, fatigue, muscle cramping, sleep quality, and much more.
Bone-thinning diseases like osteoporosis can present unique challenges for massage therapy and may require accommodations for pressure or client accessibility.
Post-acute infection syndrome has been poorly understood, but it is being studied. Clients with PAIS may seek out massage therapy because conventional medicine has little to offer them.
Massage and soft-tissue therapy play beneficial roles in treating radial tunnel syndrome (RTS). It is essential to address the entire arm comprehensively.
Tinnitus is rarely a life-threatening problem, but it can certainly threaten a person's quality of life.
Arthrofibrosis is common and can be debilitating. But because it doesn't have an agreed-upon diagnostic criteria, many professionals don't acknowledge or understand how important it is.
Massage is unlikely to fix or cure mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), but with care, knowledge, and sensitivity, MTs can create an experience for clients that feels safe and supportive of their wellness goals.
More information about skin of color can help fill the vacuum of knowledge that exists. And improved awareness may help people with dark skin tones receive better, and earlier, care.
Growing evidence supports a connection between Epstein-Barr virus and multiple sclerosis.
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a noncontagious, painful, disfiguring, difficult-to-treat condition of hair follicles, mostly at the axilla and the groin, and massage therapy for people with HS requires some specific accommodations for client safety and comfort.
Trauma-informed care is a collaborative approach to health care that focuses on helping clients safely reconnect with themselves and their physical experiences in ways that may be more effective than seen with other kinds of approaches to care.
For such a common situation, sepsis is surprisingly poorly understood by many and frequently escapes early detection until the patient is very ill. Learn how to identify and respond if a client presents with acute sepsis.
What if you had successfully battled cancer, but now you have a constant feeling where your sense of touch in your hands and feet is muted or distorted? Peripheral neuropathy is a stunningly vague label for the results of a wide variety of problems.
Through a pathology lens, here's a chemistry-light beginner's introduction to the world of pharmacology.
Pulmonary fibrosis, the accumulation of stiff, intractable scar tissue deposits in the lungs, has been a topic of interest for me for many years.
Wrist and distal forearm pain complaints from overuse are increasingly common. Let's take a look at two key chronic overuse tendon disorders of the wrist and distal forearm.
We've already learned that obesity is a notoriously difficult condition to combat. Lipedema, a dysfunctional fat metabolism in the lower extremities, is not a consequence of poor eating or lifestyle decisions. It is a chronic condition that affects a person's quality of life.
Some aspects of long COVID are a great match for the benefits massage therapy can provide, so it behooves bodywork practitioners to learn what they can about it. Benefits of massage therapy include su
Dysautonomia is a common factor in long COVID; there is an excellent chance that therapists will encounter clients with this kind of ANS dysregulation.
