Review of Mosby’s Pathology for Massage Therapists, by Salvo and Anderson.
The photos are examples of extreme symptoms and are incredible useful for me since I haven’t seen most of them before. The important thing to remember is that most of what we see as therapist may not be as extreme on our clients as what is shown in the book. At least we will know something is going on, bring to the clients attention, and obviously we are not going to ‘diagnose’ any condition.
Review of Mosby’s Pathology for Massage Therapists, by Salvo and Anderson.
The information presented in the chapter is invaluable in not only for assessing the client, communicating and recording pre-treatment finding, treatment plan, post-treatment client comment but also presents the entire ‘professional umbrella’ to set the therapist apart from individual who know the strokes but have no foundation on which to base them.
I hear a lot of people talk about how they always get migraines without fully realizing with a migraine headache actually is. It isn’t just a bad headache. In fact I get terrible headaches but I have never had a migraine, they have all been tension headaches. Tension headaches appear when muscle tension impinges nerves that run into the head region, causing referral pain. I have found that when people experience headaches it come from two places, the back of the neck or the upper trapz. Even just putting pressure on those areas while headaching makes the pain stop…until you let go. Case in point. Massage does wonders for most headaches.
I had really only ever heard of Carcinogens. I didn’t know anything about Oncogenes and Oncoviruses, which I don’t think I can actually pronounce. I was actually quite sure that cancer could not be genetic, that the only genetic factor was maybe a weakness in certain body parts making them more vulnerable. I don’t consider environmental factors, even if they are held in common throughout the family to be genetic. But my question is can massage stimulate the other two types of cancer. If massage speeds up processes in the body, can SPREAD cancer, it may also stimulate the cancerous cells to grow, theoretically speaking.
I really hadn’t considered the different ways to categorize diseases or disorders. Though the “House” program is far from reality, it does allow me to see how these categories are used when determining a diagnosis. The categories that catch my attention the most are of course the communicable and noncommunicable for health consideration both to/from client/therapist.
Not only can this be a big issue for massage but it is definitely something to watch out for as a therapist. If you are working all day and not making sure to eat enough it can have some rather debilitating affects. It produces a type of total exhaustion that makes it nearly impossible to work with any sort of quality. But with a physical job such as massage therapy, the body speeds up and eating is required more often than when you are simply sitting at a desk to keep yourself going without any affects.
