Massage Tools

The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy

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When is a tool a robot?
Join your host, Corey Rivera on the meandering development of tools used for massage (but not necessarily massage therapy). We'll talk about:

• Tools that help
• Tools that don't
• Tools that are robots
• Tools that are fish

Cathy Ryan, The Fascia Nerd also stops by to explain cellulite! Stay tuned after the outro to hear bonus Cathy.
Take a class with Cathy Ryan!
You can't break fascia (Threlkeld 1992)
National Library of Medicine TENS Article
Tool-Making and Tool-Using in the Northern Blue Jay
The definition of massage therapy (Kennedy 2016)

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Hoofdstukken

1. Massage Tools (00:00:00)

2. Definition of massage therapy (00:01:03)

3. Massage Robots? (00:02:00)

4. Massage Tools (00:02:54)

5. Blasters and Cathy Ryan (00:05:52)

6. Electrified Tools (and fish) (00:09:36)

7. Mall Dwelling Massage Robots (00:15:42)

8. Outro (00:18:50)

9. Bonus Cathy Ryan (00:20:52)