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July 15, 2022 by Lisa T.

The Naprapathic Medical Manual Therapists do not have a license in Michigan yet because Blue Heron Academy saw fit to make sure the massage therapists in Michigan had a license before us, even though the school prides itself, rightly so, on teaching the Chicago school of Naprapathic Manual Therapy. It does not and did not teach me one massage therapy stroke. I’m not sure what it teaches now. I and and a handful of peers in the state practice what […]

Categories: Authors, bodywork, deep tissue therapy, Education, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Healers, Health, Holistic Medicine, Lisa K. Townsend, Naprapathic School • Tags: #BBB, #manualtherapy #holistic #naprapathy #medical, #massagetherapy

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What if You Test Positive for Covid19? Don’t Panic. 98% of People Deal With It Just Fine. I did!

April 2, 2021 by Lisa T.

From IntegrativeNutritionalTherapies.com Root cause approach strategy to C-O-V-I-D … It’s a common occurrence now; you, a family member, co-worker or friend have a positive test (and there are many layers to this). Now what do you do? The majority of those who test positive are not winding up in the hospital, so this post is not for an emergency situation. I’m getting asked this often, so I wanted to give you some Naturopathic strategies to help optimize your immunity, since […]

Categories: COVID19, Health, Holistic Medicine, Naturopathic • Tags: COVID19, Herbal Medicine, natural healing, Naturopathic medicine, Nutrition

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What is a Muscle Adhesion?

July 29, 2019 by Lisa T.

A muscle adhesion is composed of muscle fibers that have balled up or contracted and shortened and ceased blood flow because of an unconscious signal or trauma you sent from your central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) or due to an injury. It’s a defense mechanism, an immune system response to trauma visited on the most abundant tissue in the body; the muscle. The street word is “knots” and they can sit in the body forever and inhibit blood […]

Categories: blood, boundaries, deep tissue therapy, Education, Holistic Medicine, Manual Therapy, massage therapy, Medicine, Muscles, Naprapathy, pain, Soft Tissue • Tags: massage therapy, medical massage, Muscles

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Legal Boundaries in the Massage Office

March 25, 2019 by Lisa T.

It’s only March and so far in 2019, I’ve had three clients ask me to break the law according to my license. One left money sitting on the table even though she totally needed medical manual therapy and told me she felt I was OBLIGATED as a massage therapist to provide her with spa, relaxation massage with her lotion. No. That is patently wrong and she was crossing my professional boundaries and her rights as a patient. I have the […]

Categories: boundaries, Education, Grand Rapids, Michigan, healthcare license, Holistic Medicine, Manual Therapy, Manual Therapy Procedure, massage therapy, massage therapy school, Men and massage therapy, Naprapathic School, Naprapathy, Naturopathic, patient management, political action, Politics of Healthcare, politics of touching with gender, prostitution massage

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I’m Accredited by the BBB, the Michigan Better Business Bureau

What if You Test Positive for Covid19? Don’t Panic. 98% of People Deal With It Just Fine. I did!

What is a Muscle Adhesion?

Legal Boundaries in the Massage Office