Anatomy

Recognizing different tissue textures and densities upgrades your palpation skills.

No matter how many textbooks and photos massage therapists sift through, no experience can equate to seeing bodies and tissues in the dissection lab.

Learning about the core beyond the muscles can promote new ways of thinking about your hands-on work.

Long ignored or thought of as packing material filling the space between skin and muscles, fat is finally getting its recognition as essential to human health and a part of the fascial system massage therapists tend to every day.

Our bodies comprise four tissue types: epithelial, muscle, nervous, and connective. Your massage strokes touch all of these.