AMTA Lends their Hands (and a couple of feet) to Extreme Makeover Home Edition

From December 13th through 17th, 2012, 22 members of AMTA-NC participated with over 3,000 other volunteers in building a new home for the Friday family in Lincolnton.  The Fridays were tagged by ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition (EMHE) because of their long history of making a home for foster children (more than 30 over the years). In April 2011 they adopted five children into their family to prevent them from being split up into multiple foster homes.  While the Fridays had two other children already, their modest, 3-bedroom brick ranch was stretched beyond its limits.  EMHE brought its designers, builders and volunteers to Lincolnton to replace the Fridays’ home with an 8-bedroom, 4,900 square foot one of a kind showpiece.  A Christmas special in 2012 will feature the Friday’s story and the seven day, 24/7 build of their new home.

As part of the EMHE volunteer contingent, our AMTA-NC members manned a 20×20 tent for five days, providing chair massages from 8am to 12 midnight daily.

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The NHI Guy Video Series How To Massage With Proper Body Mechanics

From Perry:  I found this video that makes good points that every massage therapist should keep in mind.  Let me introduce you to The NHI guy.

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The NHI Guy Video Series How To Massage With Proper Body Mechanics.

Proper body mechanics can keep you from becoming fatigued or injured as a massage therapist and also increase the effectiveness of the massage so that your client is 100% satisfied.

Even if you aren’t an expert in massage therapy, these tips will give you more confidence and strength while providing massage.

Without further ado, let me introduce The NHI Guy!

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Welcome to Our New Learning Location

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Cindy Rankin - President of NC Chapter of AMTA

In an effort to keep our members up to date, with everything Massage, we enlisted Perry Harward’s talents and time to redesign our Blog page. He has done a beautiful job and we Thank him for his wonderful work.

Now, let’s put his work to work for us.

This is the place to come for news, information, up to date happenings in the Massage World.

Check in often, we will have new postings, new links to exciting people and stimulating discussions. Best of all, after registering, you will be welcomed to weigh in your thoughts.

We look forward to hearing from each of you soon

Cindy Rankin LMBT

AMTA NC President

NC-BMBT Meeting Notes-Affecting Exams and Lincensing

Kim Moore - Government Relations Committee Chair

Hello Everyone,

The December 8, 2011 BMBT meeting was held on the 13th floor of the Wells Fargo Bank Building (formerly Wachovia Building) in beautiful downtown Raleighwood.

The Jurisprudence Learning Exercise/Exam was approved for implementation.  This means that all applicants will have to take the exam as part of their initial application.  The “open-book” exam must be passed with a 100% before the applicant may be issued a license.

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We need you

AMTA NC Chapter is looking for contributors.

If you like to write, publish, blog about topics related to massage therapy and bodywork, we need you.  Please see the following page  and send an email to perry.harward@amtanc.org.

http://www.amtanc.org/blog/contributors-we-need-you/

Once approved you can blog.   Thank you.

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