The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy

Send us Fan Mail Don't let them bring you down. If you have spent even a year or two in this profession, I bet you have felt a familiar, exhausting sense of déjà vu. We keep having the same arguments about entry-level education, whether we belong in hospitals or high-end spas. We argue about franchise pay and work conditions, the definition of “professionalism,” and we wonder vaguely (but never actually measure or study!) what might be behind the staggering rate of early-career burnout. Our s...

Send us Fan Mail Why we struggle to talk about the harassment of massage therapists Content warning: The following essay contains a generalized discussion of sexual harassment and assault. Please take any precautions you may need before engaging. Click here to answer the survey: A National Study on U.S. Massage Therapists’ Experiences of Sexual Harassment and Assault by Clients You can read the full survey results about Ontario here. Previous survey results from a Canada-wide survey can be re...

Send us Fan Mail There are MANY links to references in this article, so please visit the original article to see them. We (Corey and Cal) know that generative AI is a hot button question. We think it is a more nuanced conversation than “love it” or “hate it.” This article is about transparency. It is about how we (Corey and Cal) think about the tool that is generative AI, how we use it in our work, and what we’re wary of. Critical thinking demands constant re-evaluation and the conversa...

Send us Fan Mail What I have seen most commonly, is that we bring massage therapy students to give “a massage” to medical students or others learning to be healthcare professionals (nurses, physical therapists). Maybe our students talk about what they’re doing during that massage, but we don’t prepare our students to engage with the students from these other disciplines as peers. When we learn together, we hear each other’s questions and it opens otherwise unavailable opportunities to underst...

Send us Fan Mail The next two articles will only be available for our Substack members, and will not be posted to this podcast. To subscribe to the Substack and receive the articles and audio to your email, click here. I spend many of my days lost in thought. It isn’t unusual for me to lose track of a conversation because a stray idea occurred to me. Sometimes I get overwhelmed when I read a paper or a book or listen to conversations. It feels like a waterfall of ideas comes crashing do...