Video: Massage Etiquette & Client Moods

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As a profession massage therapist, learn to read client moods and use effective communication. Try these massage therapy etiquette and bedside manner tips from a masseur in this free massage video.

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Video Transcript

This is the basics of massage etiquette, sensitivity to the client's mood. When you're seeing clients day in and day out, regardless of the time of day or the day of the week, everybody's leading their own life and you're never quite certain what a client may have just come from or what their mood may be in. Whether it's the mood they woke up with that morning or something that's transpired at the office before they came to see you or something that occurred to them in the parking lot of your establishment as they're on their way in. It's for this reason that being sensitive to, being aware of the client's mood and being responsive to the client's mood is an essential part of making the entire therapeutic session more successful. Obviously, if you've got an established client that you have a rapport with, the type of thing that you can ask the client about, you can probably go a long way towards resolving whatever the mood issue might be or at least becoming more aware of it so that you can work your own actions during the therapy session into the context of whatever that person's mood is. With a client that you're less familiar with, do your best to understand what it is they're dealing with and where they're coming from and, again, work that therapeutically into the therapy session. And this is the basics of massage etiquette, client mood.

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Massage Etiquette & Client Moods

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