Clinical / Medical Bodywork

The word bodywork, though not always defined this way, tends to refer to more therapeutically focused work, targeted toward specific complaints a client might have. Often done without oil or lotion, often with client’s clothing still on, and the environment tending to be more “clinical” than relaxation or spa environment.

In the 1980s, the terms were further confused, however, when one individual coined the term medical massage to refer what may of us were calling clinical bodywork or therapeutic bodywork.

And it is often the case some therapists will mix the many forms together in one session. They will, for one example, “loosen up” the muscles first with more generalized relaxation strokes, then apply more specific pressure to specific muscles for specific treatment. Others do it the other way around.

Your Massage & Bodywork Career Possibilities Are Truly Endless!

Our focus is PRIMARILY on YOU becoming a clinical / medical, soft tissue specialist in managing and resolving significant pain, posture, movement, and dysfunction issues for which many people have not found relief. If we didn’t have to worry about Google Search Engines and search terms, we’d be calling it clinical (or medical) structural bodywork.

And yes, we do feel our approach is indeed “advanced.”

Yet, in addition to our Leading Edge Clinical / Medical Massage Therapy & Bodywork Training, you’ll receive excellent education in the skills of Swedish Massage, the more relaxing type of full body massage with oils and all that. This is all great and useful stuff, especially if you want to work in a spa setting or a franchise massage center.

Full-body Swedish massage might well be the original basis for most massage in modern America. Our highly accomplished Swedish massage instructor will provide you with top-of-the line education in full body, therapeutic, relaxation & spa style massage. You’ll be very skilled in these modalities when you finish your program.

Yet you’ll have even more to offer … much more!

One interesting aspect of the health aspects of the more general style of Swedish Massage is the proven effect it has on the improved development of infants. Infant Massage has been demonstrated to improve growth of nerve tissue and other body systems.

By virtue of the skin’s close association with the central nervous system, this cutaneous stimulation is literally awakening organic functions in the newborns’ internal organs, and without it their chances of survival are markedly diminished.

Even those who had been previously retarded showed dramatic increases in their weight, height, energy, and mental acuity. In institution after institution, the mystery of infant merasmus* was cleared up: The tactile stimulation associated with tender, loving care was absolutely crucial to a baby’s development. Without it, no amount of food and no kind of medicine could produce a healthy individual.

Juhan, Deane (2015-01-31). Job’s Body (Kindle Locations 1542-1544). Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

(* Marasmus is a form of severe malnutrition characterized by energy deficiency.)

Infant Massage might well be an excellent career opportunity for therapists with an affinity for families and children.