A massage therapy podcast designed to integrate science and values into touch therapy through online education and webinar learning so that manual therapists can help treat their clients more effectively and professionally.
Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever helped a client feel better while secretly doubting the explanation you were taught, this conversation is for you. Pain researcher Mark Johnson joins me to interrogate the quiet “hidden curriculum” in modern health care: a WEIRD, tissue-centric worldview that can be lifesaving in acute injury but can also trap both clinicians and patients when pain lingers. We talk about why the biomedical model still matters, and why it can also reach a point where it stops be...
3 Apr 2026
What If The Real Treatment Is The Experience
Send us Fan Mail Manual therapy is full of confident stories: tight fascia, “alignment,” trigger points that must be released, posture that must be corrected. Then real life shows up and ruins the script. People feel better for a day, or a week, or not at all, and yet many still say massage is essential. We dig into that tension with Paul Ingram of PainScience.com, a former massage therapist known for skeptical deep dives that still leave room for nuance. We talk about what massage therapy c...
24 Jan 2026
What Happens When We Treat The Nervous System First
Send us a text What if the biggest gains in manual therapy come from changing how we dose touch, not how hard we press? That question sits at the heart of this conversation with educator and former elite high jumper Jenny Mapes, who brings a coach’s eye to sports massage and recovery. We dig into her Quadrant of Intentional Treatment—a simple, visual framework that maps care across superficial to deep and global to specific—so you can choose inputs the nervous system is ready to accept and tu...
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