Author: Julie Onofrio

  • Ethics defined

    Ethics is about creating a strong foundation for your massage business or job so that you can build a career that will allow you to last a long time and be wildly successful as a massage therapist.   I bet you never really thought that ethics could get wild! Studying ethics and learning about your own…

  • Boundaries for Massage Therapists

    A Boundary is a space within a perimeter that may be a physical, emotional or mental space.  The emotional (mental) space is determined by past experiences, values and morals. The physical space is the actual physical limits of space that is needed by each person to feel safe and secure.  Boundaries can be communicated by…

  • Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology

    Anatomy defined – the study of the structure of the body and the relationship between structures Physiology defined – study of function of body parts Levels of structural organization:Atoms – Smallest building block of matter made up of protons, electrons and neutrons. Two or more atoms combine to form molecules which are the building block…

  • MT BOK Blog

    MT BOK part 1. MT BOK part 2. This is MT BOK part 3. Taken from www.archive.org 09/15/2020 Saturday, April 2, 2016 Past time to update. So here it is, almost 5 years since the inaugural MTBOK was published, and what has happened? I’m sorry to say that ultimately what began as a brief pause…

  • MT BOK part 2

    Part One, MT BOK Here. Links go to archive.org to copy of original website. Task Force Member BiographiesBryan Fong, LMT, MBA, NCTMBMegan E. Lavery, LMT, CZB, NCTMBKevin Pierce, LMT, MBASusan G. Salvo, BEd, LMT, NTS, CI, NCTMBSteven Schenkman, BS, LMTDawn M. Schmidt, BS, LMTJoEllen SeftonMichael Shea, PhD, LMTChip Hines, MS, PMP, LMT, NCTMB Bryan Fong,…