Cross friction massage therapy: to do or not to do?

Two very nice articles related to cross friction massage therapy. I strongly suggest that you read them and then make your on decision on whether and how to use this massage technique:

http://www.physio-pedia.com/Cross_friction_massage

http://saveyourself.ca/articles/frictions.php

Enjoy them and always try to be evidence based practitioner..!

Advanced Massage Techniques

A very helpful YouTube channel with a lot of videos with massage techniques and assessment tests. Broad to us by the Advanced Massage Techniques School.

As the name implies, Advanced Massage Techniques School aims to deliver courses that take students to the highest level in their profession.

Founded in 2009, the School runs courses in the Edinburgh area, providing Diploma courses in:

Orthopaedic Massage and Manipulation

Advanced Remedial Massage

Remedial and Sports Massage

Joint Diploma in Remedial and Sports and Advanced

Remedial Massage

When NOT to massage

There are a lot of people that believe that they can offer a massage just because they are good in that. OK maybe this is the first step to start a massage business... but lets get serious. Offering a massage is not that innocent as it may sounds.

There are serious complications that may occur when someone is getting a massage and a professional therapist should be aware of them.

I would suggest to anyone that is interested in learning a few things in massage to buy a book that suggests some evidence based practices and is published by a well known publication company.

One of the books that we went through in our education at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam is the "Evidence-Based Therapeutic Massage, a practical guide for therapists", by Elizabeth Holey and Eileen Cook, published by Churchill Livingstone.

However, if you need a for-dummies-guideline you can visit this webpage.

Very quickly, never offer a massage in the following cases:

1. open wound

2. inadequate circulation, thrombophlebitis, haemophilia

3. haemorrhage

4. early stages of healing

5. active infection

6. fever

7. acute inflammation

8. over-active bone growth (healing fracture, periostitis, Osgood-Schlatter disease)

9. psoriasis

10. undiagnosed cancer

11. increased blood or lymphatic circulation

12. osteoporosis

13. hernia

14. HIV infection

Always ask a Physicians advice/prescription in case you have any doubts.

Trigger points guide

Myorehab is a private practice in New Mexico. They have created this wonderful Trigger Point & Referred Pain Guide which is very useful for the ones that want to learn more in that method of Physical Therapy intervantion.

100+ Sports Massage Techniques

One my favorite videos from massagenerd youtube channel.

Are you a massage nerd?

Weather you are a massage nerd of not, massage is another intervention technique in Physical Therapy.

And massagenerd.com offers you thousands of videos on this technique.

As they write in their website:

"...he largest massage website with 3,500+ massage videos, 10,000+ massage pictures, 4,000+ massage test questions and so much more! Subscribe to my newsletter to keep up to date on what is happening in the massage world. If you can't find it on massagenerd, then I will find it for you!".

And here is their youtube channel.