Massage Magazine Article for November 15, 2023; Author Amy Bradley Radford

Within massage, there is a framework of healing parameters—and if you understand how they work then you can create the change you seek with massage for inflammation.

Understanding and being successful with...

(Massage Magazine Article December 26, 2022; Author Amy Bradley Radford)

One of the more commonly misunderstood use of terms I have observed in the massage profession is sciatica. Depending on how we are trained, what our clients tell us they have been diagnosed with, and the location of the...

(Massage Magazine Article July 8, 2022; Author Amy Bradley Radford)

I would like to teach you an application for self-care for your most important tools: your hands, arms, shoulders and neck using Pain Patterns and Solutions (PPS) bodywork. PPS is a form of bodywork categorized as structural and...

 (*Massage Magazine Article December 13, 2021; Author Amy Bradley Radford)

My experience with whiplash begins with my own story. I was in a significant car accident almost 30 years ago, and within two years of that accident I was suffering substantially with whiplash-originated...

(*Massage Magazine Article October 2, 2019; Author Amy Bradley Radford)

As a teacher of massage, I have frequently taught about a concept I call creating space for the health and healing of another person.

Many years ago, a wise massage therapist taught me about this concept, what it...

(*Massage Magazine Article January 9, 2017; Author Amy Bradley Radford)

I am a passionate teacher of advanced pain-management for massage therapists. I talk and preach inflammation day in and day out.

One of the first things I explain to a student taking my classes is how pain is only an...

(*Massage Magazine December 1, 2016; Author Amy Bradley Radford)

 Inflammation is something we as massage therapists witness daily in the clients on our tables.

In a sad way, inflammation creates job stability for massage therapists, because inflammation oftentimes results in pain;...