How to Communicate with Your Massage Therapist

As a massage therapist, I can not stress the importance of skill enough. Without communication, however, skill means nothing at all. Learning to communicate with your clients can be a hard lesson for a new therapist to learn - with a lack of skill causing clients to walk out the door and never return. As a client, it's also important for you to speak open and honestly with your therapist, whether it's your first appointment or not. Communication takes place not only during the course of your massage, but before and after as well. Failure to communicate with your massage therapist may lead to an unpleasant massage experience, which I'd like to help you avoid.

Communicating with your massage therapist starts the moment you step into his or her office or the moment your therapist walks through the door of your own home. Is your massage therapist greeting you in a warm and friendly manner? Is he or she introducing his or her self if this is your first appointment? Is your massage therapist doing everything possible to make you comfortable before your appointment even begins? If not, this is a good time to think about going elsewhere. Miserable grumps should not be massage therapists.