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Here, you will find a curated collection of articles, media, public presentations, and videos, all crafted to inform, educate, and inspire. Whether you are seeking in-depth analysis, expert perspectives, or engaging visual content, the Library serves as your go-to destination for reliable information and practical tools to empower your learning and decision-making.
Increasing Touch Sensitivity
From the Washington Post comes news of a simple study that demonstrated an increase in cortical stimulation as a result of using thumbs and fingers on smartphone touch screens. I look forward to similar research examining how giving massage alters the activity and...
Latest Stats on Workplace Stress
An article out today from The Atlantic outlines the conclusions of a recent working paper from Harvard and Stanford Business Schools on the impact of high workplace stress levels on employee health. "The paper found that health problems stemming from job stress,...
An Overview of Chair Massage Marketing
Here is a recent email from a massage student: I will be graduating in December and have to write a business plan. I need to decide how chair massage will fit into the plan but don't have much direction from school. I'm hoping you have some marketing advice or...
Getting Started in Seated Massage
Contrary to what many massage schools would have you believe, chair massage is not simply “table massage lite.” Any successful chair massage entrepreneur will tell you that it is a specialty. So the first step is to become a specialist. You can read books, take...
New Categories of Corporate Seated Massage Clients
At 31 years, there is little doubt The Walt Disney Company is the oldest continuing corporate supporter of seated massage in the world. Michael Neal began taking a stool around the Disney campus in 1982, providing employee-paid massage. When he retired 18 years later,...
Embrace Your Role as Touch Educator
Touch is good for us. While that may come as no surprise to the massage profession, research that helps us describe the underlying physiology of touch is a tremendous breakthrough. We can now tell our customers exactly why massage makes them feel good. Within seconds...
Seated Massage Success in the Workplace
This article originally appeared in the May 2014 issue of MASSAGE Magazine. Seated, or chair, massage is alive, well and flourishing in the workplace, primarily because of two overarching trends: evolving public perception of massage therapy and the impact of the...
Massage Chair Inventor Profile
[youtube_sc url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FFlwzIZusY&feature=share&list=PL1mtdjDVOoOpzYNFdLmgAxAaKTzwrOi2z" title="David%20Palmer%20-%20Inventor" fs="1"]Sometime around 2008, New York-based photographer David Friedman flew out to San Francisco to...
Massage is Sensational
A recent article in The Atlantic about a phenomenon called ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) reminded me of how little we celebrate the purely sensational nature of massage. ASMR is a subjective sensory experience that typically includes highly pleasurable...
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