Spa distributor Universal Companies has acquired SpaEquip, a spa development provider. SpaEquip will add a staff of seasoned experts to the Abingdon, Virginia, spa distributor.
For Universal Companies customers, this means the added expertise of a spa development and equipment team, as…
The National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) has named Dr. Leena Guptha interim chief executive officer and Bruce Baltz as board chair. In this reorganization, the organization engaged Signature Group to develop a long-term strategic and business plan.
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The new ABMP webinar “Hands Free Therapies,” with Heath and Nicole Reed, will be available to the entire massage and bodywork profession for free from April 4–6. ABMP members will be able to earn free CE hours by…
A joint press release was recently released from the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) and the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards (FSMTB).
In it, the two organizations stated, “NCBTMB and FSMTB are working toward a…
Idaho HB 519 has become law. The new law allows Idaho massage therapy schools to create tuition work-off programs whereby students can obtain tuition credit for performing massage in…
Mothers of babies born in Brazil with microcephaly are turning to alternative means of treatment for relief for their children, who are typically very sensitive to stimulus and are highly irritable. Microcephaly is a birth defect thought to be linked to the Zika virus.
A parental therapy…
Idaho HB 519 has become law. The new law allows Idaho massage therapy schools to create tuition work-off programs whereby students can obtain tuition credit for performing…
In a randomized, double-blind study, researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center found that mindfulness meditation reduced pain in participants, and did so without using the body’s endogenous opioid system as other cognitive-based approaches to pain reduction do.
Fadel Zeidan…
Currently, Oklahoma is one of only five states in the country that does not regulate massage therapists. Bills have been introduced in past years proposing to regulate massage therapists in Oklahoma, but none have succeeded in the legislature. Oklahoma…