Educating Massage Clients is one of the best ways to create awareness and acceptance about massage. Education is not talking at people telling them about massage, about what you can do and why they should get a massage. The root word of Education is the Latin word educare, which means to “draw out.” To educate, therefore, […]
Explaining Your Prices
As a massage therapist, there will always be people asking for a discount. We have become a discount economy. They may have found someone else charging half of what you are charging or they just want a discount. If people are asking you this just remember that you NEVER have to explain why you charge […]
Medicare Advantage Plans to cover massage therapy
Step by step…little by little…. massage therapy is being accepted by health insurance. The latest step is the news that 270 Medicare Advantage Plans WILL be covering massage therapy. It was a part of recent efforts by AMTA to make this happen. AMTA News Brief September 4, 2018: AMTA Reaching Out to 700 Medicare Advantage […]
Getting massage therapy covered by health insurance in the US.
All over the US, various organizations are calling for the inclusion of massage therapy in healthcare to help combat the Opioid epidemic and more. Massage Therapy can help with pain relief and management, and can be a big part of resolving many musculoskeletal injuries and conditions. Many organizations are calling for alternative options for pain […]
Show me the evidence
Evidence based massage therapy – what is it really and do we want to make sure that massage therapy that is done with clients/patients is evidence based? I have thought so for awhile, but a few weeks ago when an associate attended a presentation Healthier WA by the WA State Health Care Authority and heard […]
The gift of selling massage gift certificates
Selling massage gift certificates can help to get you new clients as well as providing a influx of cash especially though holidays like Christmas, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. There are some things that you need to know about selling gift certificates that can help you take advantage of the holidays to help build your […]