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Here, you will find a curated collection of articles, media, public presentations, and videos, all crafted to inform, educate, and inspire. Whether you are seeking in-depth analysis, expert perspectives, or engaging visual content, the Library serves as your go-to destination for reliable information and practical tools to empower your learning and decision-making.
Are We Solving the Wrong Problem?
This article examines the Interstate Massage Compact through the overlooked lens of chair massage regulation, asking whether regulatory priorities have been misplaced.
Separating Safety from Gatekeeping: The Case for Chair Massage as Entry-Level Practice
Why the regulations designed to protect the profession actually limit its reach By David Palmer The American massage profession has spent decades fighting for legitimacy. At the heart of this struggle has been a critical mission: separating professional massage...
Soft Robotics Meets Traditional Acupressure Massage
A new study explores how “smart touch” technologies could expand the reach of manual therapy The Chinese been working hard for the past few years on practical applications for robotics and artificial intelligence. One of the...
Elementary Touch Education
Last Saturday I had the opportunity to share chair massage at a PTO fundraising event for our local Annie Vinton Elementary School. It felt good to be promoting positive touch in this era of such nasty news. For some subliminal education, in the background I looped...
Feldenkrais and Hanna Somatics for Maintenance and Pain Management
Jane Brody, the legendary health journalist for the New York Times, recently wrote an article extolling the virtues of the Feldenkrais approach to pain management and recovery. Lesser known is the work of Thomas Hanna, who introduced Moshe Feldenkrais to the United...
A new textbook about touch and children
I met Janet Courtney in 2015 through a small working group that was exploring the feasibility of creating an interdisciplinary, international conference on touch. On so many levels I find her amazing. She is an internationally recognized expert in developmental...
The “Death” of On-Site Massage
[This piece was originally published in Massage Therapy Journal Spring issue, 1995. Only a few people will remember that "seated massage" originally burst onto the scene as "on-site massage" when the first massage chair came on the market in 1986. Here is a bit...
France recognizes seated massage as an occupational title
[Click to download a PDF of the press release version.] France recently became the first country in the world to recognize seated massage as an occupational category with a professional certification. On June 7, 2016, the National Professional Certification...
What it is like to attend a TouchPro training
This is an email received after the April 2016 TouchPro Chair Massage Class at the Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy. It made my day. Hey there, David ~ Thanks for the memories, as the song goes. Just wanted to express my appreciation again for holding such an...
The History Channel Features the Massage Chair
When I was first approached by The History Channel last July (2015) about filming a segment on the massage chair for a series on contemporary inventions and inventors, I didn't get my hopes up. After all, how many of these programs actually get made? But, after the...
The Genetic Roots of Massage
What are the evolutionary roots of massage. Is there a genetic basis?
What we need to know about touch
Skin stimulation (touching) is essential to maintaining physical, psychological and social well-being, according to an ever-increasing body of scientific literature. Since touch is the fundamental tool through which massage professionals interact with those who pay...
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