Vocabulary Will Be Important at Massage Therapy School

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Vocabulary Will Be Important at Massage Therapy School

Published: June 02, 2009
by Rosanne Ullman

As with hairdressing school, when you’ve gained enough skill in your massage therapy school classes, you’ll be required to work on clients. Much of your advanced training will tend to involve these real-life situations, with guidance not only in technique but also in how to conduct yourself as a professional.

Michael Cole, a well-known salon industry coach who has focused on helping hairdressers build their income, was thrilled when an Ohio massage tech, Deborah Budd, adapted the Michael Cole program to apply to massage therapy. While both hair and massage professionals should be polite and approach clients with open-ended questions that give direction in how to proceed, the words describing the clients’ massage needs will, of course, be very different from those concerning her hair needs.

The “have” vocabulary for massage clients—that is, what they’re complaining that they have—tends to involve the words: Tension, Tightness, Ache, Pains, Numbness, Dry, Slowness, Knots, Fatigue, Weakness, Stiffness, Aged, Popping, Sickness, Injury, Surgery, Rough and Itchy. The “want” vocabulary words are: Flexibility, Limberness, Looseness, Movement, Range of Movement, Comfort, Ease, Posture, Speed, Flow, Tone, Strength, Energy, Activity, Health, Recovery, Soft and Anti-aging. At massage therapy school, you’ll learn to listen carefully to what the client tells you so that you can identify which massage techniques to use in order to replace the client’s “have” problems with the desired “wants.” And when you do, you’ll be that client’s hero! Click here for more on Deborah Budd’s adaptation of Michael Cole’s program.