"The master therapist is real, calm, nonjudgemental, intelligent, sensitive, strong yet flexible, supportive, compassionate, empathic, and joyful." John F Barnes
In my own practice I strive to be all of these things. This blog is a mixture of my personal experiences as a massage therapist in Ontario as well as tidbits of information about the profession as a whole.
I have a lot of clients who make use of both massage therapy and physiotherapy. While RMTs can be trained to use machines such as interferential current (IFC) or trans-cutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), they are much more commonly found in physiotherapy or chiropractic offices.
However, I do sometimes get questions about what these types of therapies are for. I recently found a link that explains the uses and differences between them:
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