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Save Your Hands! Â Injury Prevention & Ergonomics for Manual Therapists
This may be a new word for most of you: Thumbstitute.
OK, it’s a silly word, but it’s an important concept for massage therapists. Finding something other than your thumbs to perform your work just might prevent an injury down the road. Thumbs are one of the most frequently injured parts of a therapist’s body, and overuse is the most likely reason for this.
Consider this biomechanical tidbit – for every pound of force you apply with the tip of your thumb, you experience 10 to 12 pounds of force in the CMC joint at the base of your thumb. The pressure you apply to a trigger point might be 7 or 8 pounds of force, which could mean close to 100 pounds of force concentrated at your…
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