Self-Care vs. Self-Treatment Recommendations; The Difference Can Make Or Break Your Massage Practice🤔

I have been very vocal over the years and especially on this podcast about my non-wavering belief that the best treatment method to fix injuries and pain is with quality hands-on soft tissue treatment. I went all-in on that and know it is the truth, hell I even called this podcast The Soft Tissue Revolution, so I'm fully committed!

I have been noticing a troubling trend for some time now, that has gotten worse with the COVID nonsense of the whole "self-treatment" movement of people out there, who have no business giving any advice on injuries, "showing" people how to "fix" their injury on their own. I used a lot of parentheses there to emphasize my point that it is ridiculous.

Usually, I let it go and let those people just spew off nonsense, but this week I saw several massage therapists sharing these ideas as well and even saw a training module on LinkedIn for "how to perform self-massage," by a Massage Therapist. 

There is a big problem going on when you start to recommend "self-treatment" to your clients. What you should be doing instead is recommending self-care instead and in this episode, I go over the difference and give you some tactics to make sure your clients know when they are injured and in pain, the best option is to come in and get treatment from you!

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We just launched our brand new and free soft tissue injury evaluation and treatment training, called The Peak Method, if you want to start getting in the right direction from being a service provider to a solution provider this is a great start. It is the first step in learning how to cut your treatment times in half, allowing you to double your income and keep your body healthy, all while staying ethical and not ripping people off.

If you want to request access to that training just send an email with the subject line: Peak Method Learning to softtissuerevolution@gmail.com

Please consider joining our ’Soft Tissue Revolution’ community on Facebook, where it’s a lot easier to engage as a group. It's an awesome group on Facebook covering topics in Injury Evaluation, Treatment, Client Communication, Practice Marketing, Increasing Sales, Scaling Business, and a few other topics of interest in the Soft Tissue Injury Space.

As always if you want to be part of the soft tissue practice revolution here's what you need to do:

1. Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/softtissuerevolution and request to join our group.

2. Check out and subscribe to our Youtube Channel for useful content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCevtOwI_oQZfSR5tD2iS2Yg/

3. If you have any specific topics you'd like me to cover or have any questions send an email directly to Dr.Matt.Maggio@thepeakmethod.com