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Hands On Health offers a unique opportunity
for our licensed massage staff; all our
practitioners participate in advanced,
integrative, and supervision based
medical massage therapy training.
Licensed massage
therapists graduate from massage school with a
minimum of 500 hours of education and a basic
background in applying a variety of massage
therapy techniques. Traditionally, therapists
have depended on accumulating a series of 25-hour continuing
education courses to learn advanced techniques
such as orthopedic massage, neuromuscular
massage therapy, advanced sports massage, and
medical massage.
Although valuable in their own right, continuing
education courses lack five valuable learning tools that Hands on
Health is able to provide to our therapeutic
massage practitioners:
comprehensive supervision, one-on-one
instruction, case studies, real-life
experience, and
I-NMT
testing and certification.
During medical massage
training, our therapists work one-on-one and in groups with an advanced
therapist and, at times, a willing patient. They learn to
apply technique, create a plan of action for
each session, anticipate results, create an
overall treatment plan, study postural
distortions, and communicate with the medical
community.
Recent graduates from massage therapy school may
practice at Hands on Health as therapeutic
massage practitioners. This means that they may
apply any skill that they learned in massage
school with the intention of helping someone
gain pain relief or enjoy reconnecting with how
it feels to be relaxed. While they are
practicing as therapeutic massage practitioners,
they may practice medical massage techniques and
frequently provide follow-up or maintenance sessions for
the patient when the medical massage therapist
is unavailable or the patient is no longer in
need of intensive treatments. At any time,
these therapists have access to advice, direct
and indirect supervision, and new technique
suggestions from the more advanced medical
massage therapists.
Within the first 6
months of their arrival at Hands on Health, a new
practitioner must
observe a treatment session, receive a sample of
the session, and be observed using treatment
routines for the following conditions or
complaint area of the body:
TMJD (Temporal
Mandibular Joint Dysfunction) -
Internal/external jaw muscle release
Suboccipital/Atlas/Axis
muscle release
Anterior neck
treatment including longus colli, anterior
scalenes, and hyoid muscles
Lumbro-sacral
pelvic stabilization
Ilio-tibial band
release from lateral femoral muscles
Anterior shoulder
strain treatments
Within 2,
the supervisors and trainee will decide if it is
best or desirable to pursue more medical massage
training and the practitioner will be eligible for the more
comprehensive training,
Integrative
Neuromuscular Myofascial Technique, a
certification program developed by Laura Landsiedel, one of the owners of Hands On Health.
At
Hands on Health, Raleigh and Cary massage therapy, we
strive to bring all that is possible in the
practice of massage therapy and wellness into your treatment
session!
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