Massage as a profession

This has always been a sore point with me, as my colleagues will know; we are seen as three or four rungs below physical therapists, on a scale measuring professional worth. Yet, physical therapists, or as they are titled in Australia, physiotherapists, are not too involved with - perhaps not interested in - manual therapy. There is, as I see, a gap in the health care method - who wants to provide manual therapy ?

You and I can do this - we are already doing this - and we understand:

our ability, and,

our limitations.

Last month , I was appointed as one of the editors of a magazine issued by the American Medical Massage Association; I'm not blowing big trumpets here, possums - it's just that manual therapists in the USA are facing the same issues as we are here - hot rocks against logic.

Keep in touch, because I will not let you down......

Massage Education

I have decided to take this business of blogging seriously; my attitude to massage education has always been serious, but my grasp on the technicalities of the internet is quite delicate, as Catherine and Johanna will testify.

I don't profess to know everything about massage and anatomy, and people, but I know a few things well, and I pride myself on being able to explain what I know, in a way that most others would absorb, and understand.

In my final few years, I would like to,by way of this extraordinary media,

add to what you already know,

discuss issues of concern ,

extend the influence of manual therapy in the health-care system, and

get to know you all .