| MNB Magazine

Recognizing different tissue textures and densities upgrades your palpation skills.

Low-back pain is not only costly, it’s often hard to diagnose. Taking a proper health history and exploring assessment tools will get practitioners closer to finding an answer for their clients.

BY Whitney Lowe

Business

Be Your Own Best Boss

As the boss of your own business, what do you want as your own employee?

BY Allissa Haines

Technique

Craniosacral Therapy for Fertility, Pregnancy, and Childhood

Craniosacral therapy may have benefits for families as they move through their child-bearing journey.

BY Bailey Puppel

Technique

Down the Masseter Spiral

Massaging the masseter—the main player in biting, chewing, and teeth grinding—can contribute to alleviating headaches.

BY Allison Denney

Business

Why Quality Education Matters

Now, more than ever, is the time to reevaluate massage education requirements... states that are below the 600-hour threshold must consider increasing their hours.

BY Lance Hostetter

Til Luchau is the author of Advanced Myofascial Techniques (Handspring Publishing), a Certified Advanced Rolfer, and a member of the Advanced-Trainings.com faculty, which offers online learning and in-person seminars throughout the US and abroad. He and Whitney Lowe cohost the ABMP-sponsored Thinking Practitioner podcast. He invites questions or comments via info@advanced-trainings.com and Advanced-Trainings.com’s Facebook page.

Jeffrey Bramhall developed practices and nervous system-centered bodywork at the Just Breathe Manual Therapy in Arlington, Massachusetts, and is certified in advanced myofascial techniques. He is on the faculty of the Massage School in Boston, where he finds great joy in introducing our profession to the next generation of therapists.

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Siobhain Sweetingham has more than seven years of experience in infection prevention and related educational content with Prevention Disinfectants by Virox Technologies, promoting disinfection best practices. She holds a certificate in Infection Prevention and Control from Queen's University and received her bachelor's degree in microbiology honors from the University of Guelph.

Siobhain Sweetingham standing in front of a brick wall.

Dr. Ben Benjamin has done much pioneering work in the areas of ethics and communication, writing articles on professional and business ethics. He is the co-author of The Ethics of Touch. He has been an expert witness in cases of sexual assault in the massage and bodywork profession since 2004. In 1974, Dr. Benjamin founded the Muscular Therapy Institute, a school he owned and directed for over 30 years.

Dianna Dapkins, CMT, is the founder and president of Pure Pro Massage Products, a company that has focused on providing the highest quality products to massage therapists and bodyworkers since 1992. You can reach her at diannad@purepro.com.