Touch Matters is the podcast that expertly consolidates traditional manual therapies with contemporary evidence based practice. Presented by The Massage Collective for manual therapists of all backgrounds, this educational show combines hands-on clinical experience, current research and specialist interviews. Our goal is to provide listeners with relevant and up to date knowledge that can be applied in clinic immediately; for better client outcomes and greater Therapist collaboration.
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Session 36 Debating On Social Media
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Does a day go by when you don't either see a "debate" occurring on socials, or even find yourself preparing to wade in on one side or another? Especially in the world of massage and manual therapy, this seems to have become the norm and we at The Massage Collective certainly like to participate too! But on reflection, what does this achieve? What d…
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Social Media for Therapy Business with Katie Warburton
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Social Media - now there's a mine field. As massage therapists we're generally brilliant at what we do - massage! We never trained in social media. We've all got profiles on various platforms, but how do you ensure personal and business play nicely and convey the right messaging to potential clients? Over to Katie Warburton, the ISRM's resident soc…
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Social Media - a tool for Education?
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Yes, we're back! After a bit of a break we're back in the "studio" with a new format. We're now producing 3 pods a month, two short 15 minute sound-bites, ideal for lunch breaks, and one longer form because we just have too much to say! This month we're diving into Social Media for Massage Therapists, perhaps a bit of a departure from the norm for …
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Session 33 - Making Sh*t Up with Greg Lehman
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Greg quite literally wrote the course on reconciling biomechanics with modern pain science, and brings to MSK an unique blend of professional qualifications and scientific literacy that makes him an absolute gem! So of course we jumped at the chance to have him on the podcast for a totally free flowing conversation. So join us as Greg weaves throug…
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Session 32 - San Diego Pain Summit Preview, with Rajam Roose
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A 3-day conference in San Diego, during a wet and miserable February back home in England? Where do we sign up?! Yes, Matt has managed to finagle his way to attending the 2022 San Diego Pain Summit - but what is it, and why is it such an important conference? Rajam Roose, former massage therapist and founder and CEO of The San Diego Pain Summit, jo…
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Session 31 - Communication in Clinic, with The LD Physio
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Communication skills. One of those "soft skills" that we often give no more than a fleeting thought to - until we realise we lack them in a given context. And an aspect of clinical practice that is given almost no consideration or air-time in a large proportion of massage related courses. So after such a strong response to Session 30's CPD focus, w…
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Session 30 - Why Bother With CPD?
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It's 2022, and rather than suggest all the new and exciting things we all aught to be doing as Therapists in this period of resolutions and "new year, new you" Becky and Matt provide some thoughts on CPD. Continuing Professional Development (CE for our international colleagues) is such a ubiquitous term in massage therapy that it's intent, and what…
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Session 29 - Psychologically Informed Practice with Daniel Arbilla
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Psychologically Informed Practice - you might have come across the term, but what is it? How can you start to apply it in clinic? WHY should you start to apply it in clinic? Daniel Arbilla is an Exercise Physiologist based in Sydney, Australia and visits the podcast to discuss all this and more with Anna Maria and Matt. From the similarities and di…
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Session 28 - Why Every Clinic Needs A Personal Trainer with Josh Mullin, Therapy Live Sport 2021
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Live from Therapy Live Sport 2021, Matt hosts Josh Mullin (PT Toolbox, https://www.pttoolbox.co.uk/, Southend Personal Trainer Academy, https://southendptacademy.co.uk/) as they discuss Why Every Clinic Needs A Personal Trainer. Covering the similarities and differences between massage and PT disciplines, the challenges of quality education and evi…
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Session 27 - Ben Cormack Asks "What Is "Treatment"?"
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With his multimodal approach to musculoskeletal healthcare, Ben Cormack is perfectly suited to diving into the practical and philosophical ideas around the thing we call "treatment". Whilst we probably all default to the idea that treatment is the modality that we provide to the client (eg massage, dry needles etc), the complexity of the person in …
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Session 26 - Therapy Expo Preview with Claire Minshull and Mike James
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Matt and Anna are joined by Therapy Expo keynote speakers Claire Minshull and Mike James, who share a preview on their upcoming talks, what makes Therapy Expo unique, their advice for planning your time over the two days, and (most importantly) why Mike might be bringing tomatoes to Claire's AMA! All that plus your 20% discount code for Therapy Exp…
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Session 25 - The Conference Special with Wim Hof, Mark Ormrod, Sarah Jones, Trev Lampshire, Liam Richardson & Shelley Williams
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More jam packed than a jam packed sarnie - in this episode we combine two huge in-person events with live recordings and interviews from The Arnold Sports Festival 2021 as well as a preview of Therapy Expo 2021 with event director Shelley Williams and Liam Richardson. Liam and Shelley introduce us this this years Therapy Expo, telling us why it's "…
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Session 24 - Introducing Meaningful Movement To Your Practice
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Becky throws a question to Matt & Anna Maria, then runs off! The question; how & why should massage therapists introduce meaningful movement (or exercise, or rehabilitation, or S&C - whatever you want to call it!) to their clients therapy sessions? So join Anna Maria and Matt as they discuss why you might use different terminology to describe the a…
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Session 23 - Pain is Stupid! with Kelly Williams
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"My pain doesn't need to be the thing that stops me" in this week's episode Becky talks to her sister, Kelly, who has lived with persistent pain since a car accident aged 18. In this honest and open discussion they explore how Kelly's pain has impacted her life, the psychological battles she's faced and the things that have helped her change her re…
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Session 22 - Do You Feel Demonized?
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TMC is minus one today as Matt is on a well deserved holiday. Becky and Anna Maria are however joined by Anna s dogs who can t resist to chip in! In this episode we chat or better put, go on a rant about the recently released article from Chad Cook titled "The Demonization of Manual Therapy". That word Demonization did not sit well with us TMC. We …
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Session 21 - Frozen Shoulder
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As TMC we love the opportunities we get to chat to many therapists with clinical queries, and Frozen Shoulder is one that seems to have come up a lot recently. So today we dive in and review it from the perspective of Soft Tissue Therapists; What is it? What are the flags for referral? Is adhesive capsulitis (as it's commonly referred to) a useful …
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Session 20 - Born To Walk, with James Earls
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Finally allowed to meet our guests face to face, Anna Maria and Becky head to Bristol to meet up with and interview James Earls for his website CLICK HERE James brings us up to speed with his studies, and discusses his approach to teaching human movement from the combined knowledge of the soft tissues and the skeleton. This is a unique yet entirely…
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Session 19 - Massage Matters, But Does Specificity?
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Live from Therapy Live 2021, The Massage Collective are joined by Paul Coker asking the question - do different modalities really differ in their effects, and how specific can we really be in addressing tissues? Moderated by the fabulous Katie Knapton this is a deep dive into some neurology surrounding our use of adjuncts...…
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Session 18 - Exploring Thai Massage
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Thai Massage? Certainly not a usual topic for The Massage Collective! Or is it? Join us as we explore the history of this ancient practice and reflect on how elements from it may be relevant in a modern, client centred approach, and why it could be a great idea to have a toolbox of approaches to providing therapeutic touch...…
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Session 17 - The beginning of the end of level 3?
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The SMA (The Association for Soft Tissue Therapists) recently emailed their members to inform them that from now on, the level 3 qualification will not be accepted for full memberships. It's fair to say the response has been mixed - "how dare they?", "who cares?", "does this even help improve the industry?" - all questions we've seen be asked in re…
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Session 16 - Session 16 - When Bronnie met....us
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Bronnie Lennox Thompson initially trained as an occupational therapist, graduating 1984, and later completed her Psychology MSc in 1999. In 2015 Bronnie was awarded her PhD. Bronnie has worked in pain management for most of her clinical career, with her primary focus on pain management at work. She has practiced in a huge variety of interdisciplina…
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Session 15- NICE Guidelines and Ice Cream
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The NICE Guidelines for Chronic Primary Pain were released on April 7th and it's fair to say that, as usual, there's much to discuss. So that's what Matt & Becky have done, diving into the detail and its relevance to Massage Therapists covering the good, the bad, and the ice cream. Ice cream?! Yep, there's an analogy there...…
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Session 14 - Exercise for Pain Relief with Daniel Lawrence
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Exercise for pain relief. It's a thing, even if it's hard to convince your clients that's the case. So what is leading to this analgesia when we exercise, how much do we need to do in order to benefit from its pain relieving effects and how do we explain it to clients in order to increase compliance? For Session 14 we thought we'd call on a chap wh…
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Session 13 - Evidence Informed Manual Therapy During and Post-Pregnancy LIVE
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The Massage Matters Team once again took the stage LIVE at TherapyLive Pelvic Health and smashed it out of the park talking all about manual therapies during and post pregnancy. So much ground covered with so much left to cover too! If you want to sign up for the event click here Remember to subscribe and rate the show…
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Session 12 - Pronouncing Spondyloarthritis: Rheumatology with Jack March
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Despite us often struggling to pronounce them, it's incredibly important that massage therapists are able to recognise the red flags associated rheumatological conditions, and then understand how best to support a client who has received a diagnosis. Today Jack March (https://rheumatology.physio/) joins us to explore the Do's and Don't's of manual …
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Session 11 - Graded Exposure - From Firefighter to Therapist with Jamie Johnston
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Jamie Johnston, RMT in Victoria, Canada, creator of The Massage Therapist Development Centre (https://themtdc.com/), advocate for evidence informed practice in massage and ice hockey obsessive, joins The Massage Collective for this wide ranging episode. In it we discuss Jamie's background that brought him to studying Massage having never received o…
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Session 10 - Scope & Skills Session 1: Recognising Red Flags
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We love a good rabbit hole to dive down and discuss! After running a course recently (with our tutoring hats) the feedback really got us to thinking about definitions around Scopes of Practice and Skillsets of Massage Therapists. So join us as we start this inevitably haphazard series of discussions with our first, on Recognising Red Flags.…
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Session 9 - What Does It Mean To Be Non-Essential?
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With massage therapists being told not to work in Lockdown 3.0, The Massage Collective get a bit deep discussing what it means to be regarded as a "non-essential" service, touching on our role in helping people thrive, industry qualifications, the regulation question and professional associations....…
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Session 8 - Clinical Application of Pain Science with Eric Purves
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In the last 20 years our understanding of pain science has moved on leaps and bounds, how can we ensure that we maximise this knowledge and put it into practice to best serve our clients in pain? Eric Purves, MSc, RMT, has dedicated his career to translating research and evidence into his clinical practice as a registered massage therapist and as a…
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Session 7 - Fitting Your Own Oxygen Mask First with Jo Turner
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Jo Turner joins The Massage Collective in the metaphorical studio to reflect on 2020 as a therapist, and to share her wealth of Life Coaching skills. Jo discusses why it's so important to consciously wind down at this time of year, to reflect on our wins, and how to go about planning 2021 in a sustainable way. As therapists we automatically hold ot…
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Session 6 - Integrating research & clinical practice with Dr Sasha Chaitow
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The Massage Collective welcome their first actual guest! Following Session 4 where we discussed MET we're delighted that Dr Sasha Chaitow, daughter of Leon Chaitow, has joined us to discuss her fathers legacy before diving into her own fascinating work in education, clinical integration of evidence, and how we should spend more time reflecting on a…
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Session 5 - Massage for Recovery at TherapyLive Sport
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Recorded live at the TherapyLive Sport conference! The team discuss massage for recovery. How might it work, what might it do and how should it be applied. Another brilliant session from the team! Make sure you subscribe so you never miss an episode. Part of the Physio Matters Network - Become a member here for early releases and bonus content…
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Session 4 - Making the Most of METs
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METs, Muscle Energy Techniques. Often regarded as Advanced Techniques in massage therapy, today The Massage Collective dive into the history, the current evidence and the best practice for this commonly used modality. And we dig up stuff that comes as a bit of a surprise! This is a Physio Matters Production…
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Session 3 - Practical Pain Science
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Pain Science and the Biopsychosocial model are not new concepts in general, but may be new to some therapists. So in this episode The Massage Collective provide a brief overview before discussing how manual therapists can make practical use of these evidence based approaches within their approach to client centred care. Don't forget to subscribe so…
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Whilst busting massage myths is definitely in vogue (and for good reason!) today The Massage Collective are diving into the evidence for one particularly well-documented massage treatment outcome. From this we discuss what massage is most likely to be doing for our clients and, perhaps more importantly, how massage can be applied in a contemporary,…
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Session 1 - It's All In The Nerves
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In this inaugural episode, The Massage Collective dive straight into the contemporary explanations for what is going on under the hands of the massage therapist during a treatment. Exploring our understanding of therapeutic touch on the nervous system and the resilience of body tissues to physical change by manual therapy, we also make sure that yo…
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