02/28/2024
A straight-lined solution for your body mechanics
By: Candice Coleman LMT
Moving around the table and using your body to help your body be healthy while offering effective soft and deep tissue techniques is an important goal for every massage therapist. A massage therapist should not apply any techniques that hurt themselves to use. It goes against what we are here to do. Helping clients while maintaining a successful career. Injuries and burn out in our industry is very common. Most enter the carrer with a goal is to be an LMT for the long haul. To ensure a long career, the most important investment we can make is learning how to use your body effectively. If a massage therapist is having neck pain, wrist pain, knee pain, or low back pain after or during massages, chances are the MT is doing something around your massage table that is not healthy for your body.
I offer dozens of solutions for body mechanics with my NCTTMB CEU course training . I have been giving deep tissue massages full-time for over 19 years; I am a petite girl with no work-related injuries to date.
It is not luck; it is because of the techniques I use. It is because of how I move around the table.
With the straight-line techniques, we will use philosophies I learned as a dancer and comparing your body to a yardstick so that you leave the class feeling confident that you can help people without hurting yourself. That is my dream for every massage therapist.
We offer this fantastic super powerful Wellness tool to the world. Each of us needs to be the best, healthiest version of ourselves. In our careers, Health is not about what you eat. From a body mechanics level, it's about how you move around your massage table/chair. It means we have to use our bodies to help us, while helping them. When we can help our clients from a place that is safe and healthy for us, the provider. The highest level of service has been performed. A service To ourselves, for the clients, which then ripples that passion and intention for health out into the world.
A career in massage therapy is very rewarding. It also requires a large array of additional skills.