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Avoiding Injuries in the Massage ProfessionA common belief in the massage profession is that there is a high rate of injury to the massage therapist. The work is physically demanding and can often result in injury. There are many ways to take care of yourself physically:
All of these things are external things that we can look to if something is not going right and we are ending up in pain after a day or week of work. More importantly, I believe that the cause of most injuries to therapists is that they work too hard to "fix" clients and don't know their own limits and over-extend their boundaries in order to accommodate clients needs over their own. Your body, mind and spirit have to be stronger than the clients you are working on or the chances of you getting injured increase rapidly. You must be physically strong enough and work up to working on clients. Starting with a few a week up to whatever it is that you need to run your business. People working on over 25 people a week will need extra support to deal with the physical, emotional and mental strain. Trying to "fix" clients and work too hard on them is what is really taxing to the body, mind and emotions. Can you just stay present with a client while they are in pain and let them become aware of what it is that is causing the pain? Doing this requires that you have done your own work in feeling your own pain (emotional)
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