As I mentioned in our last blog post, our Tuesday Toesday tips aren’t usually rocket science. Sometimes they are easy fixes that just take us a heck of a long time to figure out for some reason. Today’s tip for scooting the client up is one of those — super easy but with big results.
Although I am normal height (5’5″), my legs are short. So for years when I tried to do seated anterior neck, shoulder, and pec work, I’d get myself into some bad body mechanics.
The client was all cozy on the massage table like they were in bed for the night, far away from the head of the table.
Since I couldn’t reach their neck our shoulders well, I’d try a variety of, shall we say, interesting positions.
Perhaps you’ve tried these too:
- scooting the stool forward so you can reach the client’s neck and therefore giving yourself no back support.
- leaving the stool nestled by the wall and keeping your back there but scooting your rear end forward, giving you no lower back support.
- tilting your stool forward, praying that it doesn’t tip over and thrusting you on your client’s head!
- hunched like Quasimoto with a foot on the floor and the other foot on your client and using no stool