Sunday News

Happy Mother’s Day

Sunday News – May 12, 2024 – This edition includes articles on:

• Video Highlight – Low Back Pain Relief – Knee to Chest Stretch!
• Kinesiology for the Massage Therapist
• Podcast Highlight – Non-Compete Clauses
• Emergency Preparedness for Environmental Issues that Massage Therapists Face
• The Use of Cupping Massage for Musculoskeletal Pain
• Research Highlight – Evidence-based and Adverse-effects Analyses of Cupping Therapy in Musculoskeletal and Sports Rehabilitation: A Systematic and Evidence-Based Review
• How the Sounds We Hear Help Us Predict How Things Feel

Sunday News – May 5, 2024 – This edition includes articles on:

• Podcast – Sensory Approach to Manual Therapy – Amanda Rocheleau
• Massage for Common Foot Conditions
• Research Demonstrates Massage Therapy’s Positive Role in Aiding Brain Health
• Does the Massage Therapy Profession Actually Need Research?
• Video Highlight – The Secret to More Rebooking’s: A Wellness Practitioner’s Guide
• Massage Therapy: A Person-Centered Approach to Chronic Pain
• Does Cluneal Nerve Entrapment Cause Back Pain?

Sunday News – April 28, 2024 – This edition includes articles on:

• Self Care – Enjoy the Benefits of Regular Resistance Training
• Research Highlight – The Effectiveness of Chair Massage on Stress and Pain in Oncology Nursing Team
• Top 10 Massage Tools and Trends for 2024
• Podcast Highlight – The Radical RMT with Dom Labre – Leading with Ambition to Create a Motivated Schedule (and a lifestyle) You Love!
• Video Highlight – Degenerative Disc Disease Exercises (Lumbar Spine)
• How a Massage Therapist Can Handle an Allergic Reaction
• Reading Research – Is Context King?

Sunday News – April 21, 2024 – This edition includes articles on:

• Podcast – Sensory Approach to Manual Therapy and an Honest Conversation with Benny Vaughn
• Putting the Pieces Together: Clinical Reasoning for an Evidence-Informed Practice
• Self Care – Level Up Your Exercise
• Tendinopathy: Why the Difference Between Tendinitis and Tendinosis Matters
• The Symptoms, Causes and Remedies for Digestive Distress
• Video Highlight – Treating Temporomandibular Dysfunction with Positional Release Techniques.
• Rethinking Chronic Pain

Sunday News – April 14, 2024 – This edition includes articles on:

• Pro Movement Bodywork Techniques
• Add the Plank Challenge to Your Self Care Plan
• Research Highlight – The Multisystem Effects of Long COVID Syndrome and Potential Benefits of Massage Therapy in Long COVID Care
• Helping Clients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Podcast Highlight – Avi Davies – What are You Doing with Your Extra Eight Hours a Week?
• Video Highlight – Chapman Reflexes Briefly Explained by educator Paula Nutting
• What are Muscle Knots?

Sunday News – April 7, 2024 – This edition includes articles on:

• Podcast – An Interview with Rebecca Henderson on Fatigue, Burn Out and Purpose
• Stop Slipping and Sliding: Get a Grip on Finger and Forearm Techniques
• Wearable Devices for Self Care
• Research Highlight – What is Effective in Massage Therapy? Well, “It Depends…”: a Qualitative Study of Experienced Orthopaedic Massage Therapists
• Video Highlight – How to Improve Ankle Joint Mobility
• From Fixer to Facilitator

Sunday News – March 31, 2024 – This edition includes articles on:

• Big Toe Kink in the Kinetic Chain
• Ten Simple Rules for Reading a Scientific Paper
• Video Highlight – 6 Exercises to Improve Wrist Joint Mobility and Range of Motion
• Measles: A Primer on Recent Outbreaks, Transmission, Symptoms and Complications Including ‘Immune Amnesia’
• Open Access Journals – What are they, and why are they important?
• Podcast – Budgets and Savings in Your Massage Business: “Business or Pressure” with Allison Haines
• Research Highlight – Effect of Manual Lymph Drainage on Removal of Blood Lactate After Submaximal Exercise

Sunday News – March 24, 2024 – This edition includes articles on:

• Podcast Highlight – ASMR and Massage Therapy: A Talk with Dr. Giulia Poerio
• Online Wellness Content: 3 Ways to Tell Evidence-Based Health Information from Pseudoscience
• Bodywork, Hormones & Homeostasis: Triggering Feel-Good Hormones Through Touch
• Use of Practice-Based Research Networks in Massage Therapy Research
• Self Care: Don’t ‘Take it Easy’ as You Get Older: Longer Lives are Tied to Physical Activity
• Video Highlight – Transforming Your Healthcare Business Model
• Research Highlight – Pain Pressure Threshold of a Muscle Tender Spot Increases Following Local and Non-local Rolling Massage

Sunday News – March 17, 2024 – This edition includes articles on:

• How Are Patients Values and Beliefs Taken into Account When Practicing Evidence-Based Healthcare?
• Video Highlight – Piriformis Syndrome – Home Stretches & Exercises
• Mobilizing the Radial Nerve
• Podcast Highlight – The Thinking Practitioner: Aging Well, Breathing Well, and Long COVID
• Research Literacy: Massage & Sleep – Does Massage Therapy Improve Sleep in Infants and Their Mothers?
• Corrugator Supercilii: small muscle …big headache
• Research Highlight – Effects of Swedish Massage on Blood Pressure

Sunday News – March 10, 2024 – This edition includes articles on:

• Podcast –Sensory Approach to Manual Therapy: Self-Organizing Nature of Collagen
• The Most Important Course You Can Take
• Gluteal Amnesia: Real, Relevant or Ridiculous?
• Clinical Reasoning in Massage Therapy
• Research Highlight – The Effect of Deep-Tissue Massage Therapy on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate
• Video Highlight – Essential Morning Self-Care Rituals for Massage Therapists: Activate & Prevent Injury

Sunday News – March 3, 2024 – This edition includes articles on:

• Podcast – Will a Kidney Stone Make a Grown Man Cry
• Krick in the Neck: From Pathology to Pain
• From Helplessness to Hope: Chronic Pain and Quality of Life
• Research Highlight – Effect of Aromatherapy Massage on Depression and Anxiety of Elderly Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• How Massage Can Relieve Heartburn Symptoms
• Craniosacral Therapy Can Help With Concussion Recovery
• 3 Benefits of Creating Your Own CE Course
• Video Highlight – Relaxing Evening Self-Care Routine for Massage Therapists: Unwind & Reduce Stress

Sunday News – February 25, 2024 – This edition includes articles on:

• Podcast Highlight – Sensory Approach to Manual Therapy and ASMR
• Treating Whiplash Sports Injuries
• Video Highlight – Hands and Thumb – Self Myofascial Release
• Refresher – Osteoporosis and Massage: Etiology, Signs & Safety
• Research – Reduction of Current Migraine Headache Pain Following Neck Massage and Spinal Manipulation
• Traveling the World as a Sports Massage Therapist
• How Did Swedish Massage Get Its Name? Origins of Swedish Massage
• Self Care – Why a Digital Detox is Good for Your Physical and Mental Health