Author: Julie Onofrio
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Massage Therapy Body of Knowledge (BOK)
Final Documents of BOK as accessed from archive.org from the original website www.mtbok.org (https://web.archive.org/web/20190430194533/http://www.mtbok.org/) MT BOK Website from archive.org Download the whole website in a Word .doc or Adobe PDF. Article: Developing, Maintaining, and Using a Body of Knowledge for the Massage Therapy Profession, International Journal of Massage and Bodywork, 09/21/2011. JoEllen M. Sefton ,…
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Massage Therapy Defined
Best Practices Forum Clarifying Definitions for the Massage Therapy Profession: the Results of the Best Practices Symposium Massage is a patterned and purposeful soft-tissue manipulation accomplished by use of digits, hands, forearms, elbows, knees and/or feet, with or without the use of emollients, liniments, heat and cold, hand-held tools or other external apparatus, for the…
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Master Muscle List
Competencies as per ELAP: Recite Muscle Name Identify Directional Position State General Attachments State Specific Attachment Sites State Primary Action State a 2nd Action State a 3rd Action Outline Shape & Fiber Direction Place Muscle Short & Long Positions Perform Isometric Contraction Palpate Origin Palpate Insertion Palpate Muscle Belly Head, Neck and Jaw…
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How to set your massage rates.
Setting your massage rates involves knowing what you need to make to be successful and stay in business along with pricing your rates to be affordable by your target market or ideal massage client. So often massage therapists set their rates low thinking that it will get you more massage clients because you will be…
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HIPAA for Massage Therapists – Just do it.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was created in 1996 to help protect the privacy of patients especially when health care professionals are using electronic billing, fax and email to send information back and forth. There is so much confusion over whether or not a massage therapist has to implement HIPAA and whether they…