Substack: Massage Isn’t Complicated, It's Complex

About this episode

The episode discusses the complexity of problems in massage therapy and how different approaches are needed for different types of issues.

Send us Fan Mail Why we don’t need to get along to get along. Not all problems are created equal, and the methods that will solve one kind are very different from what you need to solve the other. Oftentimes problems are a combination of simple, complicated, or complex; or vacillate between the distinctions with time. Thinking about the features of each can help us decide how to approach them. This article is a companion to this one written by Cal. These articles represent each author’s indep...

Topics covered

• massage therapy
• problem-solving
• complexity
• education
• health

Keywords

• massage
• complex problems
• health education
• therapy methods
• problem-solving

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