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 Hi I mean Harvey massage therapist

Today we're going to talk about how to

Talk to your client on the table

Why we would want to do this what the circumstances would be where it would be appropriate

And why it can be useful

This is something that I started to do

When I was working at one of those big box massage franchises

And we only had 10 minutes between clients you had your 15 minutes your 10 minutes and then your next client

Land altogether

And that wasn't a lot of time to do anything like

Say hello or even introduce yourself

So

What I started to do

Was take some of the things that I would but after massage or before the massage during a massage during the session

And I found that there were some benefits to that

Benefits to

Educating the client about their own body

While they're on the table

That

You just can't get by trying to

You know

Damn whole lot of information

After the massage when

There's no teaching AIDS

And I know you can have a chart on the wall but there's nothing like

Talking to your client about their muscles

Wow you got your thumbs sunk into an interesting point

Princeton's while you're working on a client's rotator cuff you can tell them what the heck of rotator cuff is

But people don't know that their rotator cuff is a group of muscles because

No never explains that it

Just sounds like a cup

By taking a moment to

Explain

What you're doing and why you're doing it

That

Can bring your body

Can I give them an idea

About what's going on in an area that may have been a mysterious or even scary they've been hurt there

It also

Bring them on board

With

Your treatment plan and with your reasoning

If we

Stay opaque

And it's difficult for a client to tell why we're doing what we're doing

Sometimes it can seem like we're wasting your time

They don't know

Why we're working

Back here when they got peanut here

They don't know why we're interested in their hips when the pain is in their little back

So by getting them this

Extra information by showing them

With our hands that there can be a correlation between these two points

We can bring him on board

With why we're doing what they're doing

And that can have some interesting results

First of all it can increase their satisfaction as a massage client

By knowing what we're doing and why we're doing it

It can make them feel like their partner

And their treatment

Which is how I always want it to seeing

Second by bringing them on board that can increase their compliance with homework

Am I bringing them on board with our thinking like this

That can be more effective than just saying

Ghost rachor

Go use a foam roller

We're telling them the why of it

By telling a little bit extra

That can be enough to make them think a this might be worth doing more of

Disclaimer one thing that I don't want to do while I'm working on the clients and their kind of at my Mercy

This person is here

They are trusting you with their body

What I don't want is to

Stigmatize them

I don't want to

Talk to them or frame things in such a way

But they leave with a complex or with new worries about their body

So

Talk about this in Minot video the reason why I don't really like that term is because people can kind of carried around with them

For the rest of their lives

Oh I have not

So when you're telling them what you're feeling make sure to frame it

In a way that

Is accepting

Normalizing

A contrast that with

Wow you got the tightest shoulders ever that's

Not what I want to tell my clients

Some people like hearing things like that because they think of it as a competition

But for other people that will make them worry that will be something that they think about her a long time

So

When I talk to people about their body especially while I'm in contact with it realize that that is a

Vulnerable moment

That that is a time of trust

And I want to

Given the window

Into their body

Without making it seem

Scary weird

And on that note just realize that it is possible to overload a client with information

I don't want to be explaining things were talking about things for any more than a few minutes and then given session

Especially if they're not responding

If the client isn't asking questions if they're not interested

Then I will absolutely revert back to silence and it just go about massage

But

If the client is interested if they've got

Specific

Dysfunction or pain that they're very interested in learning more about

Then I'll happily spend more time than that

Just realize that you don't need to spend your entire 60 Minutes doing

What your client lead the way as far as how much talking is going to happen during any given session

Are some examples of some things I might talk to the client about during massage

For instance if I'm working with a client who has

GoPro

I got

Shar-Pei mix

Limited range of motion

While I'm working with

This rotator cuff

I will take the opportunity to

Tell him a little bit about it

Do you feel anything there

Okay

So

Sometimes I can be as specific as that but

Sometimes I have to let people know what I mean by that

Incase

Once I have learned that they are

Feeling something in this area

I'll tell him a little about it

So this is

One of your

For rotator cuff muscles

This morning

Change alarm outward is called the infraspinatus

And

In the past I've seen a lot of correlation between

Tightness here

And pain on the front of the shoulder

So this is something that I did

Like to work a little bit more with as we go forward

And once I've just given in that little bit of information

I can

Stop there

Or I can tell him a little bit more about these other muscles and how they

Are related

I'm going to areas where you can be useful to

Talk to your client about their own body

Is where the relationship between

Dysfunction in pain

That they might not immediately

Find intuitive

So it's someone tells me about their little back and they've given me permission to work with.

I'll let them know that

But I'm sinking into right now

Is

Gluteus maximus

And

There can frequently be

A relationship

Between

Tightness here

And

Tightness and pain in the lower back

Cuz I'm working let me know if you ever feel any

Referred pain

Into this other area okay

And I can also be used for when you're working with areas that might not commonly be worked by

Massage therapist

So if I'm working with this hip region

And I come around to the side

And I'm making contact with gluteus medius

They can be useful to let them know why this area can be a little bit more

Intense little bit more sensitive

And just let them know what you're working on

And I like to

Throughout a little bit of information

When I'm working with

Or planning to work with unusual muscles

So

Again these are areas that

Other massage therapist might not necessarily work with but these are also

Muscles that can be a little bit

Emotional

Muscles that can be intense

So

I like to

Let them know more about their own body but to

This is also important for getting informed consent

Bye

Letting them know where I'm working and why

They're better able to say

I don't want

Contact there

Cranston's if I

I'm working with someone's jaw and I think that it might be important to work with their scn as well

I like to let them know a little bit about that

I'd like to work with the muscle on the front of your neck it's this real big guy right here

This can feel a little bit weird but if it feels at all like choking or anything like that please let me know

Okay

That's how I go about it

Let me know what you think down in the comments let me know if

You do much talking during session and how you go about it

Let me know if you if you're planning on trying any of this

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