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RE: Touch With Your Hand, Heal With Your Heart
So much more to that than I realized. Is this the same in all states or only California?
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So much more to that than I realized. Is this the same in all states or only California?
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I'm in Canada @josephsavage but I can speak to basic regulations in all of North America.
Each state has different requirements and many have no requirements at all. The states of Florida, Colorado, California and Hawaii have some of the most stringent academic requirements for massage therapy.
Canada's requirements are completely different and only 5 of our provinces have regulation, the other 5 provinces and 3 territories are not regulated (as of yet).
This is why there can be huge discrepancies between levels of care, skills and service.
Anyone can be taught to rub a body. Anyone can read a textbook or a scientific journal...but this work can be taken to the level of an ART if a student is paired with the correct teacher.
Just like a form of martial arts, you must learn to use your body differently...I now can "see" with my fingertips and if you could observe my body movements around a treatment table you would understand the difference. ;)
It can be felt also.
I’ve had many many massages over the years. I think it is key to staying healthy overall. There is a huge difference between someone who just does massage & someone who focuses on the level that you are talking about.
Usually older ladies that have deep deep strength combined with those X-ray fingers & psychic level of patient understanding. The kind of massage that has your whole body feeling lighter & soft the next day.
Maybe I’ll go today 🤔
So true @ceattlestretch!
I am 5 feet tall and 90 lbs...often people think how is this little lady going to be able to do anything for me. It’s all about how you leverage your body. The strength comes right up through your foot placement, up your core and into your shoulders, then gets transferred through your arms to your fingers. I use my whole body to move and free the fascia of another person.
It’s a bit scary to see a body reposition itself without the conscious control of the individual who it belongs to, but that’s the entire goal.
Put the body into the optimal alignment, hold it and let it make its own corrections.
Very little force is needed then...different than old school chiropractic which does use very aggressive, abrupt thrusting to force a body to accept a new position.
I hope you do have a good treatment today. It does keep the body in good running order. ;)
I can imagine you are very efficient in your work.
Part of me would love to go to massage school so I could actually help people be healthier. Previously was a surgical tech & didn’t feel like I was actually helping anyone but the people making money at the time.
Maybe that will be my next school adventure
I think you should seriously consider it...a lot of your previous education could be transferable if it included anatomy and biology...
Also, there’s potentially a new kid on the block for those of us who have experience with the herb...patients who partake in the plant medicine for chronic pain management also appreciate the value of infused limament. Works like a charm on neuropathic pain like that associated with diabetic neuropathy...finding a supportive therapist is tricky, not to mention finding one that knows how to use cannabis and who can make their own topicals. I’ve not read very much on this topic yet, but I know it will be a huge thing. Amazing anti inflammatory benefits. ;)
Was thinking along the same lines about infused topicals. I guessed you’ve been using them already. I have given some friends massages with infused coconut oil before & they were very relaxed. & I know for me it really keeps general inflammation down.
& yes you are right, not just my anatomy classes, but seeing all the anatomy dissected on a daily basis & learning the goals of different surgical techniques have given me a lot of insight into how my body functions & how I can heal it. None of which involve surgery! Healthy Fascia is key 🔑
My brain is playing tricks on me. I see now that it says Canada in the post. I don't know why I thought it said California.
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No worries. It was a great question that I was happy to answer.
Here’s another crazy fact: in the early 90s, massage therapists practicing in the state of California were required to go monthly for sexually transmitted disease testing in order to keep their licenses.
Can you imagine this archaic thinking?
Still to this day, people think all kinds of things that are so far from the truth, it would make your head spin. :)
That is crazy! 😂