Are massage therapists healthcare providers? What does it mean to be a healthcare provider? A healthcare provider is defined as: Health care provider means a provider of services (as defined in section 1861 of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 1395x(u)), a provider of medical or health services (as defined in section 1861(s) of the Act, 42 […]
Massage Client Relationships
Understanding massage client relationships will help you in building your massage business just as much as any marketing plan or website. In learning about client relationships and learning to develop them you will be learning about yourself and your own needs -personal and business needs. When you are doing your best work, people will […]
If we are not at the table, we are on the menu.
If you are not at the table, you are on the menu is a political saying that supposedly comes out of WA DC in about 2000 with no known origin. I first heard it said that the Alliance for Massage Therapy Education Conference (I think in about 2010) in Tuscon AZ by John Weeks, publisher/editor […]
Who is who in massage associations
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has shown that many massage therapists do not know what the major associations do for the profession and do not know the history of our associations. They are NOT just for insurance. If you just want insurance, there are some companies that provide insurance at a reduced rate like www.handsontrade.com and […]
COVID-19 Guidelines for Back to Work
Guidelines, Guidelines and more guidelines from our associations and organizations and from the CDC, OSHA, WHO and more…. but now what? Should you reopen during a pandemic in which there is NO absolute positive way to screen effectively for the virus? Where you work in a closed room and are unable to social distance? How […]
Wearing Facemasks
Think about it. You can clean and clean and rearrange your room and disinfect and change your clothes and shoes and put up sneeze guards and buy fancy table covers and face rest covers and in walk the client who unknowingly has the Novel coronavirus. They don’t have a temperature (many don’t) and no symptoms […]