Category: Musings & Random Thoughts

Can you motivate the unmotivated student?

Recently, I found a great website for teachers—Cult of Pedagogy (Teacher Nerds, Unite). The site includes blogs and podcasts about teaching issues and resources. While the site is mainly geared toward K-12 teachers, some of the information is helpful for any teacher. On that site I found an article, written by Jennifer Gonzalez, titled “5 […]

Article published in Massage Today!

Teaching business for massage therapists and taking advanced and continuing education classes for many years, I have noticed that it is much harder to create a class based around a specific population or body area, as many massage therapists only want to learn new techniques. I wrote an article for Massage Today, Massage Specialization as […]

Alcohol Decreased Disability from wide spread chronic pain! When it sounds too good to be true...

Those experiencing wide-spread pain, such as caused by Fibromyalgia, have a new friend. In a study of 2239 people with chronic widespread pain in the UK, those participants who drank a moderate amount of alcohol had less disability than those who did not drink- by a significant margin of 67%. Doesn’t this press release sound like something too good to be true? Well, maybe.

Social Media Pitfall: Becoming a "Used Car Salesman"

Social media is a powerful tool for marketing our business, but it isn't the best or only tool. And, like any tool, it is most effective when used correctly. Too often, therapists get caught up in the myth of social media being a quick and easy answer for marketing without understanding the basics of using […]

Building Authority and Credibility as a Referral Tool

Having been a massage therapist for many years with a large and successful practice, I am now faced with the job of sharing the tools that led to that success with students and I sometimes find it challenging to put into words what I knew intuitively. When I found the article “Building Your Authority and […]

The Lure of Snake Oil Medicine

About a year ago, I read a blog by Laura Allen, titled The Snake Oil Medicine Show discussing how many products and programs are created and marketed to health care practitioners and how easily, it seems, massage therapists can be seduced by these products. Coming from a western medicine, science based background, I have always taken […]

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