Ep 349 - Post-Surgery Questions:"I Have a Client Who . . ."Pathology Conversations with Ruth Werner
Waaay back when I was in massage school…
We looked for one-size-fits-all answers to highly individualized questions.
That doesn’t work anymore!
In this episode we consider a number of questions about massage therapy for surgical patients—when, where, how, what, and more. Of course the answer is always “it depends”—but WHAT does it depend ON?
Resources: 
Pocket Pathology: /abmp-pocket-pathology-app
Hospital-Based Massage Therapy course:
https://www.healwell.org/hospital-based-massage-therapy
Scar Tissue course with Cathy Ryan:
https://online.healwell.org/courses/scar-class-2023
Traumatic Scar Tissue Management by Nancy Keeny-Smith and Catherine Ryan, published by Handspring/Singing Dragon:
https://us.singingdragon.com/products/traumatic-scar-tissue-management
“A Doctor’s Note is Not Good Enough… and what is better”:
Meet our hosts
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Ruth Werner
Ruth Werner is a former massage therapist, a writer, and an NCBTMB-approved continuing education provider. She wrote A Massage Therapist's Guide to Pathology (available at booksofdiscovery.com), now in its seventh edition, which is used in massage schools worldwide. Werner is available at ruthwerner.com or [email protected].