Abstract
Abstract Massage therapists are incurring serious injury as a result of using techniques that have not changed in over 200 years. Recent research points to an injury pandemic that is only now coming to the surface. Massage has reinvented itself over the last 100 years into numerous body-therapies that would be unrecognizable to Per Henrik Ling, the father of western massage. Techniques originally designed to be used for only a few minutes are now used throughout the session to the detriment of the practitioner's health. Altering the contact point of massage and the practitioner's own body-movements are essential for healthy practitioners and a healthy profession. These alternative contact points can be safely used for soft and nurturing strokes as well as for deep structural bodywork. The forearm in particular offers a variety of appropriate surfaces that enable the bodyworker to achieve the same effects as conventional hand-based massage strokes.
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