The recent COVID-19 pandemic has shown that many massage therapists do not know what the major associations do for the profession and do not know the history of our associations. They are NOT just for insurance. If you just want insurance, there are some companies that provide insurance at a reduced rate like www.handsontrade.com and […]
COVID-19 Guidelines for Back to Work
Guidelines, Guidelines and more guidelines from our associations and organizations and from the CDC, OSHA, WHO and more…. but now what? Should you reopen during a pandemic in which there is NO absolute positive way to screen effectively for the virus? Where you work in a closed room and are unable to social distance? How […]
Wearing Facemasks
Think about it. You can clean and clean and rearrange your room and disinfect and change your clothes and shoes and put up sneeze guards and buy fancy table covers and face rest covers and in walk the client who unknowingly has the Novel coronavirus. They don’t have a temperature (many don’t) and no symptoms […]
Cultural Competence Classes
Unconsicous Bias Class from Healwell. We all have it–unconscious bias. Learning about our biases can help us provide better care for all people no matter what their race or sex or sexual orientation. Our brains process information in prediction loops (things such as daydreaming, memory, delusions are in prediction loops.) Our sensory input system provides […]
It is what it is…
And this is what it is. Novel coronavirus is SARS-CoV2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2). It is NOT a flu virus or anything like the flu virus. The symptoms are cough, difficulty breathing, fever, chills, body aches and pains, blood clots, kidney failure, heart failure, pneumonia, lung damage. It can cause headaches, fatigue, gastrointestinal […]
When should YOU reopen your massage business?
Intake and Screening Clients No amount of screening in a massage therapy office can effectively rule out COVID-19 or coronavirus. Intake forms may ask questions and you may be taking the person’s temperature but that does not mean that the person is free from infecting others with the coronavirus. Since the virus is often undetected […]