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The article focuses on the implications and considerations when massaging clients who use transdermal patches like fentanyl, exploring their technological aspects and potential applications beyond pain management. Topics include the safety concerns and practical considerations for massage therapists regarding the presence of transdermal patches during sessions, despite the lack of formal research on this specific interaction.

The article focuses on essential vocabulary related to infection control in workspaces, covering terms like reservoirs, hosts, fomites, vectors, and portals of entry. It explains how understanding these terms is crucial for maintaining a clean environment and preventing the transmission of pathogens, emphasizing their relevance in various contexts from mosquitoes carrying dengue virus to poorly cleaned surfaces harboring fungi.

The article focuses on the challenges posed by diabetes complications when providing massage therapy to clients. Topics include understanding the various complications of diabetes, the potential risks and benefits of massage therapy for individuals with diabetes, and the importance of accommodating clients with diabetes while considering their specific needs and medical conditions.

The article focuses on the complexity and different manifestations of diabetes, emphasizing that it varies from person to person. Topics include diabetes statistics, pathophysiology, and different types of diabetes, highlighting the importance of understanding and managing the disease to provide safe massage therapy for clients with diabetes.

The article addresses lack of information about skin conditions that affect people of color, specifically in relation to skin cancer. Physiologically, the main difference between people with dark and light skin is how much melanin they produce, which affects their risk of skin cancer. The Fitzpatrick Skin Tone Scale is a labeling system for skin color, although its effectiveness has been distorted over time.

The article revisits the topic of skin cancer, including its pathology, risk factors and types, with a focus on skin of color. It discusses ways by readers will gain a better understanding of how to identify early and late-stage skin cancer. It also tips on how to sensitively communicate observations to clients. It is noted that skin cancer usually develops in areas repeatedly exposed to ultraviolet radiation or chronic inflammation, but also due to toxic exposures and immune suppression.

The article focuses on special attitudes and skills necessary to provide massage therapy to people suffering with Fibromyalgia syndrome, or fibro, one of the most common, most difficult, most complex, and least understood health-related conditions. Topics discussed include history and definition of fibromyalgia, appropriateness of massage therapy in fibromyalgia and abnormalities in pain processing by the central nervous system (CNS).

The article delves into the evolution of Standard Precautions in healthcare, tracing their origins from Universal Precautions in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s to their current state of flexibility, adapted to various healthcare settings. It emphasizes absence of specific protocols for massage therapists while advocating for additional precautions like hand cleaning stations, foot-operated trash cans, and air quality maintenance, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The article focuses on the pathology of long-term Lyme disease, a tick-borne infection with a pathogen called Borrelia burgdorferi, and the challenges of treating this disease. Topics discussed are stages of movement of the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, diagnostic guidelines proposed for post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS), difference between the treatment of PTLDS and chronic Lyme disease (CLD), and role of massage therapy in the treatment of clients with PTLDS or CLD.

The article offers pharmacology information for massage therapists. Topics discussed include massage therapy's interface with clients' medications in the context of side effects, drug nomenclature and classification, and the terms pharmacotherapeutics (PT), pharmacokinetics (PK), and pharmacodynamics (PD) on drug action. Also noted are drug side effects and how to mitigate them.

In this article the author talks about person infected with SARS-CoV-2 is making blood clots, and hemostatic derangement that occurs in the presence of systemic infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It mentions that complicated sequence leads from viral invasion to cytokine overreaction, inflammation, platelet activation, and the precipitation of clotting factors in the complement cascade.

The article offers information on goof skill and education for safe massage in otherwise in off-limits areas. Topics include learned about endangerments comes from what my teachers learned, which came from their teachers' teachers, ad infinitum; and look to the medical literature for case reports that link massage therapy to client injuries.

The article analyzes prospects of creating a new standard of massage therapy practice after lifting of business restrictions related to COVID-19. The author recommends to massage therapists to open their practices only if they know for sure that they and people surrounded to them are virus free. The author states that the safest, lowest-risk option is to ensure that both parties in the massage therapy session are uninfected.

The article offers information on Trigeminal neuralgia (TN), which involve structural changes to only a tiny piece of tissue, and can utterly destroy a person's quality of life. Topics discussed include information on Classic TN which involves short episodes of extreme pain, with no pain between incidents; use of sodium channel blockers as first-line medications to treat TN; and information on rhizotomy, a procedure designed to damage segments of the trigeminal nerve.

The article highlights the concerns towards autonomic nervous system (ANS) functions and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), which is a type of dysautonomia. It highlights the help of ANS to maintain physiological homeostasis: a stable state, even with changing environments and also presents about Postural orthopedic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) that refers to a group of signs that include increased heart rate.

The article offers author's opinion on increase in tick-borne allegeries in New York City, U.S. It is mentioned that about 90 varities of ticks can be found in the U.S., on connection between ticks and meat allergies, and how such allergies effect massage therapies. The article also adds that not all allergies are connected to meat, sometimes a person can come into contact with a tick and how information on tick-induced meat allergies can help a massage therapist offer advice.

The article offers information on two inflammatory joint pains common among older people including Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and Giant cell arteritis (GCA). Topics discussed include conditions that exists on a continuum, with PMR on the mild end and GCA on the more severe end; risks of accumulation of abnormal white blood cells in case of GCA; and signs and symptoms of both the pain including headache, jaw pain, and others.

The article offer authors view on diabetes mellitus and pathology of diseases. It mentions that how a massage therapist can gain pathological information on diabetes and treat them with massage, types of diabetes including type 1, double diabetes, and gestational diabetes. The article also discusses about use of insulin, early signs and symptoms of diabetes, and ways for treating the disease.

The article focuses on the facts related to AIDS and benefits of massage therapy for HIV positive people. Topics discussed include medications for HIV infection such as antiretroviral therapy (ART) and myths related to their toxicity, person's rights over information of their HIV status, and transmission of HIV infection.

The article discusses the symptoms and signs of Raynaud's syndrome and risk associated with it. Topics discussed include requirement of medical treatment, requirement of revisiting the cardiovascular system anatomy, possibility of the diagonals of ulcerations and gangrene, and improvements in local circulation and stress reduction.

The article focuses on the terrible advice to be given to massage therapists. It discusses how therapists should not treat the client like the least important person in the room, how to give the same kind of massage to everyone's body at anytime, and bitching about the client on the social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter.

The article discusses the benefits of massage therapy in alleviating the pain in the lower back stemming from bone-related problems. It explores the broad spectrum of bone-related potential contributors to back pain caused by inflammation. It offers information on the types of inflammation, such as spondylosis, ankylosing spondylitis, and spondylolisthesis.

The article focuses on application of massage therapy to address chronic pelvic pain (CPP) in women. It mentions issues in context to CPP including considering pain as protective reaction to the perception of threat; measuring pain severity to track progress in pain treatment; and management of pain. It recommends application of visceral manipulation that focuses on the pelvic organs to treat CPP.

The article outlines several factors to consider in preventing the transmission of pathogens in the skin. It mentions the inappropriate used of hand hygiene protocols that led to the increase risk of infection among caregivers and patients. It outlines the three groups of bacteria that colonize humans including commensals, mutualistic bacteria and pathogens. INSET: Biodiversity.

The article discusses about anxiety disorders and how massage therapy can help in their treatment. Also cited are the fifth edition of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM) and its definition of anxiety disorders, the various types of disorders like general anxiety disorder (GAD), agoraphobia, and separation anxiety, as well as the tools to identify and measure the disorders like the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). INSET: DSM-5 HEADINGS.

The article discusses how massage practioners can establish a strong connection with their clients, and how they can encourage the people, who are suffering with body shaming issues, to avail their services. It suggests that massage practioners should provide special care and attention to persons suffering with any medical or physical problem.

The article discusses how massage therapists can engage in evidence-informed practice so that clinical decisions can be based on what research says. Topics discussed include the importance of research literacy as a baseline skill among therapists in order to identify strengths and weaknesses in the research they read. Also mentioned is the role of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork in requiring continuing education in research to uplift the profession.

The article discusses the monumental work of the Entry Level Analysis Project (ELAP) and its role in the Massage Therapy Body of Knowledge project. The ELAP aims to establish baseline learning outcomes needed for people to enter the massage therapy profession. It also aims to develop a practical learning taxonomy for manual therapists and to create an extensive blueprint of curricular structure aligned with the learning levels and domains based on the taxonomy.

The article focuses on cannabis-infused topical lotions and oils, the issue of whether or not massage therapists in the U.S. should be allowed to use such products, and some implications for massage therapists. It discusses the history of marijuana in the U.S., the criteria by which cannabis and its subtypes were classified as a Schedule 1 substance, and how such products work. Also mentioned is the effectiveness of the cannabis-infused lotions in reducing pain and inflammation.

The article focuses on orthorexia, which is an obsession with eating foods that are considered healthy. Topics discussed include the term orthorexia nervosa coined by medical specialist Stephen Bratman in 1997, the need for proper diagnose of the disorder as it overlaps with other psychiatric problems, its treatment through low-dose antidepressants or psychotherapy and opting for massage therapy to cope up with the disorder.

The article discusses the role of massage therapy in helping clients who underwent amputation. Information about situations that can lead to amputation including circulatory dysfunction and diabetes mellitus is presented. The long-term consequences of amputation are outlined. Stories of massage therapists dealing with clients who are amputees are also provided.

The article focuses on the causes of exercise-induced injuries and discusses fitness strategies for massage therapists to cure the injuries. Topics discussed include risk of injuries such as sprained ankles, plantar fasciitis, and stress fractures from exercises such as Zumba and Yoga, findings of a research on exercise-induced injuries of muscles revealing knee problems or stress fractures, and benefits of a massage therapy to cure the injury.

The article points out that the risks of continuing the practice of massage therapists amid the COVID-19 pandemic outweighs the benefits. Topics covered include the impact of the pandemic on massage therapists, the sharing of misinformation by both massage therapists and U.S. government officials about massage therapy and the necessity of massage therapy for supporting people with acute and chronic medical conditions.

The article presents the author's advice on the protocols for laundering linens and sheets of the massage tables. The author suggests using the water temperature and detergent according to the manufacturer's instructions, use of nonchlorine bleach for laundering, and rinsing of the laundry post-bleaching for avoiding irritation. Details related to temperature for drying the laundry, packaging of laundry, and avoiding leaving laundry damp are also included.

The article offers information on the lack of research literacy program, in the curricula offered by the massage schools in the U.S. Topics discussed include utility of research literacy program in the development of critical skills of the massage therapists, massage therapy for the patients undergoing dialysis and effectiveness of massage therapy in health and wellness. It also mentions the effect of massage therapy on the quality of sleep in breast cancer patients.