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Risky Business: From Daily Practice to COVID-19
07/30/2020

As massage therapists, we never want to come from a place of fear, but a little healthy fear can really help us when it comes to considering risk. MTs are thinking a lot about risk these days. Risk of working or not, and, of course, the risks within a range of client presentations.

August Coaching Call with Irene Diamond Free for ABMP Members
07/28/2020

As a member of ABMP you are entitled to join master business-acceleration coach Irene Diamond at no cost, on her monthly "Client Creation & Marketing" group coaching calls just for therapists and clinics. The next call is scheduled for Monday, August 3.

The ABMP Podcast with Boulder Massage Therapy Institute Instructor Nancy Saunders
07/22/2020

Organization, communication, and trust are the three pillars Nancy Saunders’s bodywork practice, and important skills she establishes when educating new professionals at the Boulder Massage Therapy Institute in Colorado. Nancy reminds us of the importance of setting and holding yourself to high standards and meeting clients where they are—after all, it’s their session.

Virtual Learning for Manual Therapists: Upledger CranioSacral Therapy
07/16/2020

Young woman working at a computer with a notebook

In this unprecedented pandemic environment, it is important that learning continues, even if it can’t happen in person. Upledger Institute's online educational platforms serve to fill the void of postponed or canceled classes due to social distancing, while providing a work-study-life balance.   

COVID-Related Coagulopathy, Take 3: A Conversation with a Hematologist
07/16/2020

Illustration of red blood cells clotting together inside the human body

Pathology educator and author Ruth Werner recently had a conversation with Yaser Diab, MD, a hematologist working at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, about abnormal coagulation associated with COVID-19 and how massage therapy might fit in the context of COVID-19 survivors and coagulopathy. Read the notes from their conversation here.

Getting Used to Working in Masks
07/15/2020

Young woman putting on a disposable surgical face mask

Cal Cates and Kerry Jordan from Healwell provide an overview of what it’s like for massage therapists working in masks, from which masks to use to concerns about breathing. 

I May Have Been Exposed to COVID-19. Now What?
07/09/2020

ABMP connected with epidemiologist Tessa Crume, PhD, an associate professor in the Epidemiology Department at the Colorado School of Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, to get her expert advice on this member’s question.