You know you need a massage when...

• you realize that your shoulders are up around your ears and your kids call you a turtle
  
• you steal the dog's tennis ball to hit those big knots in your back (you wipe off the slobber first though)
  
• "burn baby burn" gives new meaning as burning pain radiates down your leg
• you get your kids to walk on your back
• you get your dogs to walk on your back
• you get your cats to walk on your back
  
• you realize that you are literally a pain in the neck or a pain in the butt
• every person in your office has "volunteered" to rub your neck and shoulders
• stress is your middle name
• your Blackberry/Iphone/cell phone/computer mouse is permanently attached your hand
• it feels like the "weight of the world" is literally on your shoulders
• you give yourself a time out

As a massage therapist, I realized today that I desperately needed a massage when I was actually jealous of my client. What was also funny was the other massage therapist I was working with during a couples massage came out and told me she was "drooling" over my neck work because her neck was hurting so badly! :-) How do you know that you need a massage?

~This Week in Massage News~

this is part of the clip on #theView that is making #Massage Therapists SO angry.. Hot Topics: Al Gore http://bit.ly/cKNewp


Everyone has been Tweeting this week about the Al Gore story about the alleged sexual advances toward his MASSAGE THERAPIST (not masseuse) during a 3 hour massage in his motel room. I personally get upset when people think that something could "almost happen" during a massage. If a therapist drapes properly and maintains professional boundaries, there is nothing more than a great massage being given. In order to give an atmosphere of professionalism, I would not go to any one's hotel room especially at night even though I have received many calls in the past for this request. It's not safe in many ways. I have had also some "odd requests" in the past, but have stood my ground and laid the law. I will never forget though when I started working for a gym in February, the owner's dad told her, "you don't want massage here. The police will come and shut you down." I can't believe people think this way, but around here, it is not an unfair judgement in some cases. Georgia just past their licensure laws 3 years ago and they are still shutting down nail places and "day spas" for prostitution rings. One of my clients told me that her friend got a massage in New York City I believe and it included a "happy ending." It's stories like these and possibly the Al Gore case that give massage such a bad connotation and make our job that much harder, fighting the judgement and close mindedness of others while educating on the wellness and health of massage therapy.