Help your clients with fibromyalgia relieve their pain. Learn about this debilitating syndrome — and how massage therapists can make a tremendous impact on their clients with fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia, a syndrome with widespread chronic pain as its hallmark, is an enigmatic ailment with no known cause, no simple diagnostic test
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With the economy struggling, and public outrage at a peak over lavish corporate expenditures, some companies are still treating their employees well. They’re doing it cheaply, right from the office by hiring massage therapists to come to their businesses and provide employees with chair massage at or near their workstations.

Finishing touch
When we understand the power that touch brings, as the ancient physicians did, massage becomes a natural adjunct to treatment. The staff at the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, West Indies, recognizes this. In turn, some of the highest-rated activities clients discuss during exit interviews are the massage
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Massage for clients’ body, mind, and spirit
Becoming aware of where one unconsciously holds the tension in the body turns into a wonderful advantage for clients working to identify and manage triggers, and learning how to deal with cravings and stress in general. Often, a part of the body
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Massage in addiction treatment
In order to more fully understand the place that massage therapy holds in the treatment of addictions during the detoxification phase, it is important to look at the biochemistry of addiction in the brain. Much attention has been directed to the mesolimbic reward system, the
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Types and effects of massage
With so many different types of massage therapy and bodywork from which to choose, practitioners often blend several styles to fit their own individual philosophy, training, and intent (for an excellent, thorough review of massage therapy, see the ç chapter in Collinge & Duhl,
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The history of massage
Massage has played into healing since early on in human history — some sort of healing through touch, or laying on of hands, has been part of all ancient cultures and continues into modern times. The ancient Greek and Roman physicians used massage as a
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Massage is often labeled an alternative therapy in addiction treatment. Yet today’s evolving integrative health paradigm acknowledges massage, along with other body therapies, as a natural and logical instrument of human healing. The scientific study of massage is in its infancy, but recent research documents the effectiveness of massage and
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Clients that breathe by lifting their shoulders to their ears need more than a massage to relax their neck and shoulder muscles. Learn how to help them strengthen their diaphragm to change breathing patterns and relax their body.

Strengthening muscles that normally receive little attention can make a monumental impact
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You or I may not agree with the approach mentioned in the following article (massage for sculpting the body), but the practitioner does take before and after pictures. At $1,795 per body zone (presumably upper body or lower body) this could clearly be a very lucrative additional service to offer
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