What’s in a Name?
I’m abandoning my politics for a moment to have a little rant about something else: modality names. Rolfing, Feldenkrais, and Trager, for example, are what I would describe as old classics. They’ve...
View ArticleMassage Regulation: A Comedy of Errors
I’ve spent the last hour reading legislative updates pertaining to the regulation of massage…in the past, I’ve sometimes referred to this as the good, the bad, and the ugly. This time, I’m just going...
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Report from the AFMTE Annual Meeting
I spent last weekend in toasty Tucson, AZ at the Alliance for Massage Therapy Education annual meeting, and for the third year in a row since this organization started, it was one of the best things I...
View ArticleIf at first you don’t succeed….
Try, try again. That’s what the regulatory board in my home state of North Carolina is recommending when it comes to getting the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards to do something about the...
View ArticleNCBTMB Making Major Changes to CE Provider Approvals
Disclosure: I have agreed to pass along comments, questions and concerns to the NCBTMB on this matter, and the management there reads my blog. They are fully aware that I use this blog to express my...
View ArticleCE Providers React to NCBTMB’s New Approval Plan
In the past couple of weeks since the NCBTMB unveiled their new plan for CE providers, which includes doing away with organizational approval, the reaction of providers has for the most part been very...
View ArticleELAP Final Report & Entry-Level Education Blueprint Released
The Entry-Level Analysis Project Final Report and the Entry-Level Education Blueprint were released today, and it’s a whopper…266 pages in the Report, and 527 pages in the blueprint. Obviously, I...
View ArticleAn Interview with Paul Ingraham
A few years ago, I came across a website that has become one of my favorites. It’s at www.PainScience.com, and the writer behind it is Paul Ingraham. Ingraham is a former Registered Massage Therapist...
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