Most massage therapists in practice today readily acknowledge
that if they received any breast massage education at all when
they were in training, they did not receive enough.
Breast health care is vitally important to women, yet most do
not know how to find practitioners who will support their breast
tissue health. Massage therapists can provide gentle and
effective treatment of a number of the breast complaints that
women have, including post-surgical and scar work, easing of
discomforts of pregnancy and breastfeeding, treatment of
congestion and edema, and alleviation of many of the causes
of breast pain.Massage therapists can also play a role in supporting our
clients' regular breast monitoring practices.
While most massage practitioners believe in the therapeutic
value of breast massage, most do not have confidence in their skills
in relation to this sensitive area of treatment.
This groundbreaking book provides the knowledge and
understanding that massage therapists need to be able to
offer breast massage when appropriate, as part of the
fundamental set of health care services we provide for those
who choose massage therapy.
About the Author
Debra Curties has been a massage therapist since 1984, and has
been teaching Pathology and Clinical Theory to massage therapy
students since 1987. She is the Executive Director and one of
the owners of Sutherland-Chan School in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada. Her love of teaching and of the massage therapy
profession have merged in many of the roles she has assumed in
the past 15 years, including President of the American Massage
Therapy Association's Council of Schools, founding member of
the Canadian Massage Therapy Alliance and the Canadian Council
of Massage Therapy Schools, and contributor to the Ontario Core
Curriculum and the Ontario College of Massage Therapists'
Standards of Practice. She currently sits on the Board of Trustees of the
AMTA Foundation. She is the 1998 recipient of the Ontario
Massage Therapist Association's Meritorious Service Award and the 2000
recipient of the AMTA Council of Schools Meritorious Service Award. e-mail the author
