Substack: Why Massage Therapy Needs a Divorce, Not Another Debate

About this episode

The episode discusses the need for a shift in the conversation around massage therapy, emphasizing that technical debates are distractions from more important issues.

Send us Fan Mail It’s Time to Stop Going to Aunt Tricia’s This article is a companion to this one written by Corey. These articles represent each author's independent perspective, and were written without our usual collaborative input. We are super excited about them. Every technical debate in massage therapy is displacement activity. Every. Single. One. We argue about measurement systems (clock hours vs. credit hours), terminology (but we call it taxonomy… all fancy-like). Is it bodywo...

Topics covered

• massage therapy
• debate
• measurement systems
• terminology
• perspectives

Keywords

• massage therapy
• debate
• measurement systems
• credit hours
• taxonomy

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