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Section 5: Client & Therapist Safety

  • Identify and understand contraindications and understand how to modify massage therapy treatment to accommodate a contraindicated condition.
  • Know appropriate bolstering techniques to ensure correct positioning of the patient by providing support and comfort to the limbs and joints during a massage treatment.
  • Know how to prepare and maintain a safe massage therapy environment.
  • Practice personal hygiene appropriate for a clinical setting, including wearing appropriate clothing.
  • Know correct body mechanics and breathing while working.
  • Understand that massage is an athletic career and know how to maintain personal fitness to help prevent work-related injuries.
  • Drape a patient proficiently, exposing only the body area to be worked, while other areas remain covered.
  • Understand and respect the importance of confidentiality and know how a therapist protects confidentiality.
  • Understand a patient's right to refuse treatment and a therapist's right to refuse to give treatment.
  • Understand the dynamics of the therapist-client relationship and the need to respect personal boundaries, physical and emotional, of both patient and therapist.
  • Recognize inappropriate behavior on the part of either therapist or patient, and know how to respond to it.

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