The ABMP Podcast spoke to Irene Diamond about what MTs can do when they can’t offer hands-on work. Diamond speaks about virtual/remote services within practitioners’ scope of practice and other options for serving clients when you can’t provide therapeutic touch.
COVID-19
Healwell's free online course draws on ABMP's back-to-practice guidelines to offer therapists recommendations and best practices for transforming a home massage office into a COVID-safe (as possible) space.
I am a pathology educator, and it is my job to keep current with available information about pathologies, as it applies for massage therapists. This has been particularly challenging of late, because as we know, our understanding about COVID-19 changes hourly.
The ABMP Podcast launched with a signature series titled “Conversations in Quarantine.”
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Read ABMP’s April 24 update and an August 6 conversation with epidemiologist Tessa Crume.
The use of personal protective equipment (PPE) will be central to moving forward and reopening your practice when the time comes. Following is more information about PPE from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Sometimes the feeling quietly creeps up on you. Sometimes it hits you square on the jaw.
With many schools having been forced into distance learning and states implementing new regulations, ABMP has created enhanced distance-learning resources for our free ABMP Student Life network, made these available to all ABMP School Members, and is providing free access options for those schools who aren't yet members.
ABMP continues to stay on top of small business administration programs, unemployment benefits, and disaster relief aid to help you stay financially afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As massage therapists, we miss our clients, which causes us to anxiously ask, “How can I be of service if I can’t touch?” And, of course, “When will it all go back to normal?” The short answer? It won’t, actually.