Project for Open Education in Massage (POEM)

When you publicly second-guess real-life medical patients like this, just for the sake of selling a named product, you've left "massage therapist" way behind, and crossed over definitively into "snake-oil salesman".

For the record, no matter what misinformation you might have been taught in massage school, or heard from sources who don't know basic biology:

1. Even if "very viscous blood" were a real thing accounting for ischemic stroke, it doesn't really account for all those cases of hemorrhagic stroke, does it?

2. If there were really such a thing as "systemic overacid condition", you would be dead, since life is possible only in a very narrow pH range, but it sure sounds sciency, doesn't it? and

3. Water--even expensive, proprietary, brand-name water--does not, by itself prevent a stroke. Most diseases are complex and multifactorial, and attributing 1 cause to them is overly simplistic, black-and-white thinking.

I deeply love massage for all the good it brings people and animals, and it's really upsetting to see people deliberately link it with pseudoscience and ignorance in the public mind--all for the sake of moving product. Conflict of interest, much?

It pains me to the core when clients have to protect their own interests against MTs hawking misinformation.

That's not the way healthcare professionals behave, and massage ought to be better than that.

"Many people think of intelligence as static: you are born with lots of brains, very few, or somewhere in between, and that quantum of intelligence largely determines how well you do in school and in life. The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has never liked this view. "I hardly ever use the word intelligence," says Mr. Tyson, who directs the Hayden Planetarium in New York. "I think of people as either wanting to learn, ambivalent about learning or rejecting learning.""

If you believe that you can improve your basic abilities, wherever you find yourself along your learning journey, then your chances of being successful are higher than if you believe there is nothing you can do.

http://www.poem-massage.org/content/learning-success-and-learning-success

http://www.poem-massage.org/content/learning-success-and-learning-success