The Massage Lab at RSCC

10/14/2026

They say massage therapists are a certain kind of way. This could be important when you look through that lens.

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10/12/2026

Have you ever put your hands on someone and thought, ‘I can feel that releasing’? 🤲 I was taught that myofascial techniques released fascia, and when clients felt better, it seemed to confirm what I thought I was doing.

Even now, some training providers still teach that fascia becomes dysfunctional and causes pain, poor movement or poor posture. Therapists are often taught to find the pain and look elsewhere for the cause. Flat feet, leg length differences and shoulder asymmetry can be presented as clues, and a gentle touch in one place claimed to influence the fascia, is said to create body wide changes.

But what are our hands actually doing? Touch can be slow or quick, light or firm. We can hold, glide across the skin or add a twist. The skin and deeper tissues pick up that information. Researchers call this mechanosensation: the physical information our body receives from touch. 🧠

Give two people the exact same technique and one might enjoy it while the other hates it. The technique’s name or brand cannot dictate how a person experiences it. What the therapist claims is happening, what the client has heard or read, and what they expect can all shape how they interpret touch. A client may genuinely feel a change in their body, but that feeling alone does not show that fascia has been released.

Our hands touch the skin. We can feel tissues respond to pressure and movement, but we can't feel fascia in isolation or know that a specific fascial restriction has changed. People can feel better and move differently after MFR; that improvement does not prove the explanation used to teach the technique.

If MFR changes fascia in a lasting, selective way as some explanations suggest, why would fascia respond only to a therapist’s hands or tools, and not to rolling over in bed, climbing stairs, sitting, standing, reaching or breathing?

Have you been taught the ‘Hook, Line and Sinker technique’? The hook is the promise that fascia explains the problem; the line is the branded story with their specialised techniques; the sinker is treating every sensation or improvement as proof. 🎣 Therapists deserve better than stories and explanations that sound convincing but can't actually show how they worked.

10/10/2026

Excited for the innaugural Division One Bodywork class at Fox Muscle and Joint! So much to learn!! Stay tuned!

10/10/2026

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10/05/2026

Returning to Glowing Body Yoga & Healing Arts see ya there!

🙌🏽 For Our Massage Community 🙌🏽
End of the year massage CEs.with Vicki Idalski

Tennessee Law & Ethics for Licensed Massage Therapists
Sunday, November 1 | 12:00–2:00p

Keep your continuing education on track with this upcoming professional training. There are 20 seats available in our cozy studio.

Pre-registration is required.
$100 for both classes, or $60 for Law or Ethics individually.

Download our app for iPhone or android to easily register or text 865-239-4072 for assistance.

10/02/2026

This you? I'll be offering a couple more Law and Ethics classes before the end of the year. Stay tuned.