I love sharing travel tips with clients, as since they are classified top-secrets of the secret society Knights of the Massage Therapists, I want to share them with you. Sciatica Roll: This can be a pillow, a rolled-up towel or jacket/coat. Use it for passive realignment in any airplane, car or train seat. Tuck … Continue reading Travel Tips Redoux!
Tailbone problems plague people – and massage therapists. The worst is the sideways curl, keeping hips, feet, lumbar vertebrae and cervical vertebrae all a-twist. This massage therapist finds a lot of trouble in tailbones. They are really supposed to flex a bit when sitting, guide and balance while walking or running. Too may of my … Continue reading Parking Stones
Sometimes we massage therapists get our best quips quite spontaneously from our clients. I haven’t done a top-ten list lately….so… Top Ten Best Quips from Clients Mid-Massage Number 10: “The combination to the safe is 35 left, 56 right and 22 left.” Number Nine: “Do you wash your sheets?” Number Eight: “Ever … Continue reading Massage Mercies
We massage therapists sometimes see the un-doctored, the folks who are big believers in the preservation of health by staying far, far, away from anything medical. I respect people’s beliefs, especially when they are dearly held, but I also know that I have a duty to at least bring up the subject of finding … Continue reading Tremors
Here’s a visit again to the denizens of the noisy office – I have fairly quiet neighbors, but my recent moved-in neighbor, a chiropractor, has his desk and phone on the other side of my massage room and his treatment room along the other wall. We are unwillingly sharing conversations, little mumbles and buzzes, … Continue reading Real Office Walls Make Good Neighbors
One of my favorite clients really hates massage. Doesn’t want it, doesn’t like it, would rather do his own taxes with a broken pencil or his own root canals with a rusty knife. Tough cookie, he never fails to tell me how much he dislikes massage when he comes in. This massage therapist is easily … Continue reading Walking Hard….
Hi there Find Touchers! I’m Mel. Or Melissa, depending on if you get emails from me. I thought that you might like to get to know me a little, and learn how I came to Find Touch, and how massage has changed my life. I was born in San Diego, and moved up to Seattle … Continue reading The story on how a stranger became at home in your world
One of the nice things massage schools do these days is try to encourage students to do an externship during their course. Unpaid, but for credit. I was near the end of my classes when I went for my first interview for a massage job. Thought I was God’s gift to massage, of course, … Continue reading Student Massage….
Summer fun and the Fourth of July – well this past week when a client came in with numb fingertips, a raging headache and no neck. The family had been over for the “fireworks.” Oh, and by the way, don’t touch my hands or my neck, the client said. It’s too much. What to … Continue reading Knows to Toes
Most women have sat freezing in a tiny little exam room, rustling their paper gown, trying to read an old magazine. It happens at least once a year and is not fun, but part of staying healthy. It’s the gyn visit. I’ve been there too, so when I decided to do massage … Continue reading Positioning for Success and Comfort