Good question, actually very important question. What will make clients coming back to you is not that you know more techniques, but the QUALITY of the massage techniques you give. This is vital to remember every time you give massage. Quality, quality, quality and quality...

Hi Dror et al,
Thank you for the response.
It makes sense and this is what i need to focus... forget overthinking and just connect to the body and muscles and let me go with the musicality of the movements.
As you said, I asked my client regarding repetition and she admitted that could have stayed receiving massage for another 2hours!
And this was very nice to hear...
But from the other hand... what will differentiate us from others and make clients to come again and again back to us... :)
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Hello Evita,
Thank you for your question. It a question that many students have asked me during the years.
First, I would like to say that usually students like you, who GIVE massage, most of the time feel bored, lost and that they need 'more movements'.
On the other side, people who RECEIVE massage, don't mind repetition. They love slow, repetitive strokes.
So, the problem is not with the massage, but with us, the therapist.
The problem is in the way we think: Our thoughts are fast and progressive. Once we think something, we move on to the next 'thing'. In massage its different. In massage, we need slow down and move from the speed of 'thinking' to the speed of 'being'. And its difficult. So, we (the therapist) odd.

One more thing: it might be that you need more 'massage movements'. However, I would like you to also focus the improvement on the QUALITY of the massage: slow, well connected, responding to the client, musicality, connect movements together, use your body correctly, feel what happen to your client and more.

It will be nice to see what other students in the group feel about this subject so please join the conversation!!

Thank you!

Hi Evita. Do you mean if you need to improve the past reports? No need. Just improve the future reports

One good rule of thumb: when in doubt, include! :)

Great thank you for clarifying

Hi Dror, yes that is what I have referred to above but I wasn't sure if the alimentary canal needs included. I guess I will include it in case.

Can you look at the class note of the digestive system. There ar the list of organs/structures of the digestive system. Those are the organs you need to write about.

Yes, exactly. This question asks you to describe the 'journey' a bite of food does from the mouth to the cell. So, part of it, once the food has its final break in the digestive system (small intestine), then it goes to the ....blood circulation (start via the capilaries in the intestine, to the liver, then to general circulation, the heart, then via arteries to cells around the body).

Hi Nicky,
Connective tissue: a general term for all connective tissues types: bones, cartilage, blood, fat and more...
Fibrous connective tissue: one type of connective tissue. Examples: tendon, ligament, fascia...
Why do you use Google when you can ask me :)
Clear?

Hi Jane, you need to first write those (type), then print those and finally add them to the journal in the correct place.
Dror

No need to know muscles origin and insertion.

Sorry Amber, I have missed this question. No, you don't need to learn the muscles origin and insertion.