As a massage therapist your hands and arms are your work tools and they can get tired and strained after a long day's work. While a general level of physical strength is always useful and can make us more resilient against injuries, strain injuries are often the result of unhealthy loading and tension accumulated over time, and in order to protect us against them we need to understand the more specific demands of how we use our body when giving massages. This includes a good understanding of the anatomy and muscle coordination involved.

As a bodyworker and movement therapist I want to empower you to get a clearer understanding of your worktool and to learn how to better care and prepare your body for the loading and strain your profession might bring.

In this workshop you will get a combination of anatomical knowledge of the intrinsic and extrinsic muscles governing the movements of your hands and fingers, in addition to some useful anatomy of the shoulder in order to understand better how to offload excessive tension which in the long run might lead to strain injuries. You will also receive 5 specific exercises which train the strength, joint stability and coordination between important muscles in the hand, arm and shoulder.

When you purchase this webinar you will also receive a pdf with the most important points and descriptions of the exercises along with timestamps for where you find these demonstrated in the webinar recording, for easy later reference.

This workshop is for all massage therapists who primarily use their hands as work tools.