Tag: Nutrition

  • Self-Care for Therapists

    Namaste Recently in class a student asked how as therapists we can best take care of ourselves in order to have a long career. Nutrition, from our own view, was one of the points I touched on. Our ancestors observed the diets of animals such as the gorillas and chimps, but they also used instinct…

  • Massaging HIV/AIDS Clients

    Namaste When I think of HIV/AIDS red ribbons and African faces flashing across the television screen come to mind.    Words like retroviral, cocktails, discrimination, safe sex, latex condom, get tested, etc. are some of the words I recall, never is the word ‘friend’ associated with the disease.  Yet I have had a few friends who…

  • Injury Management

    Namaste I was not there last week when some of the students were doing post-event massage for members of a cricket club, but I learnt that one of the players had a severe groin strain, so much so that the best of efforts at massage almost seemed futile as there was still much tension in…