December/Jasnuary 2008
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Sample Article
Taking Care of Your Fingers in Massage
Dynamic Bodyuse for Massage Practitioners by Darien Pritchard
This is the third in a series of articles extracted from a forthcoming book on Dynamic Bodyuse for Effective Strain-free Massage which is designed to promote good bodyuse as an integral part of doing massage. It presents guidelines on how to reduce the poor working habits that take a cumulative toll on the massage practitioner’s body. The previous article focused on protecting your thumbs. This and the next articles will focus on how to look after the other common ‘tools’ used to deliver massages - your knuckles, fist, forearm and elbow. Future articles will then cover using the rest of your body to back up those working ‘tools’. Read full article








