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Let's face it, most of us are human. We all make mistakes. Our clients make mistakes. Let's show the new massage therapists joining us that these things do happen! This is just to add a little light hearted humor to our day.

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Latest Activity: Aug 15, 2018

Since I started it, I feel that it's my responsibilty to be the first to share! While educating my client on proper body mechanics and how to "always be aware of your posture and movement", I went down 3 stairs on my rear. No worries, no harm done! Still living with the embarassment.

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The trick chair

I was about to begin a massage with one of my regular clients. She put her stuff on a chair in the room. She then sat down on the massage chair. The face cradle covers were on some shelves behind…Continue

Started by Massage sucks Aug 15, 2018.

I fell down and went boom. 1 Reply

Hello everyone,Just had another blooper that I thought I'd share. I was working yesterday and had moved my rolling stool to the edge of the table to do some stretches. After a bit I decided to sit…Continue

Started by Jody C. Hutchinson. Last reply by Marissa Dec 11, 2009.

An accidental blooper: ouch

I had a bad day last Friday. My oldest client, 91 years, has trouble rolling over. I usually lift her up and help her turn over. Well, Friday she was having trouble and I used my forearm to roll her…Continue

Started by Jody C. Hutchinson Oct 26, 2009.

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Comment by Marissa on November 21, 2009 at 4:27pm: I just had the unfortunate tummy talking session. It would not shut up! Of course it had to happen when I was working the back. Very close to client ear range there! Both of us couldn't help but start giggling about it.

Comment by Erica Olson on October 31, 2009 at 3:52pm: Hmmm. If I have to work on a well-endowed client (mainly when it's an enhancement), I offer a towel as a bolster when she's prone. Personally, the boob-recess and face-hole tables kind of creep me out.

Comment by Ellie Smith on October 31, 2009 at 10:57am: Gosh, I never worried about that sort of thing. But since I got my table with breast recesses it has ceased to even be a small problem. If you are going to be getting a new table, I heartily recommend springing the extra bucks for the breast recesses. Not only does it eliminate the side hand, it allows women's backs to be flat rather than bowed over all the stuff in front and makes the release of tension in the rhomboid area much more effective.

Comment by Marissa on October 31, 2009 at 7:21am: I've done that! Now before any work like that, I security strap them in with the sheet. I always make a joke of it when they question why I'm doing it. I tell them that we just don't want anything popping out to say hi!

Comment by Katherine FitzGerald on October 30, 2009 at 5:56pm: The female feel up!! You girls know what I'm talking about!! The naturally very well endowed client who hangs to the side; and when you do arm work tend to brush
up or even grab accidentally!!! How embarrasing!

Comment by Marissa on October 26, 2009 at 8:28am: So, I recently started doing the Bellanina Facelift Massage treatment. Very exciting, I must say. Well, I had to be the one who asked in the seminar how many times, when first starting, do you end up poking someone in the eye or sticking your finger up their nose. These things happen to me all the time, so I needed to be prepared. There were a few chuckles, but no answer. So, of course, my first week out, I'm in the "zone" doing the treatment and I actually poked someone in the eye! Luckily it was a dear friend and we just kept on laughing.

Comment by Jorge Arnaldo Pabón Acevedo on October 25, 2009 at 9:35pm: When I was at the school in training and technical evaluation a new group student was offered to model. For some reason my friend decided to start the massage prone. By the end asks to the guy to take a supine position. And here comes the embarrassment moumment, the sheets were fine and clear color when the guy was on his back, he had a very noticeable erection. All students looked enduring desire to laugh, my friend did not know where to look, so that another student took a towel to place over the guy. The poor new student after the situation did not dare return to model and receive massage.

lol

Comment by Marissa on October 14, 2009 at 7:51am: Welcome to all new members! Thank you all for sharing! Keep everyone laughing folks! This is great stuff!

Comment by Ellie Smith on October 13, 2009 at 7:56pm: Marilyn, I have never had a client grab me, thank heavens! I might have had to use my fly swatter!

Speaking of things not quite coming out right, when I was first doing massage and I was ready for my client to change from back to front I told him "Okay, you can roll over now and put your face in the hole." After a beat when he gave me a very odd look, I added "in the face cradle!" I think I actually blushed once I realized the implications of what I had ordered him to do. We did both laugh after a couple of seconds. Laughter is always a good tension easer.

Comment by Erica Olson on October 13, 2009 at 7:39pm: On the dual notes of both happy endings and saying the wrong thing, I've got a good story. I was once working on a woman's subscapularis; as is to be expected, it was not the most comfortable and relaxing of work. She was a real trooper, though, and by way of encouragement I told her, "Ah, just a little bit more, and then we'll end with something happy."

I was talking about finishing the session with a scalp massage, but realized exactly what I'd said after a couple of beats. I corrected myself by saying, "Um. Wait. That didn't come out quite the way I meant it to."

My client laughed and said that she and her husband had been joking about "happy endings" earlier that day. We both wound up laughing til we were nearly in tears. :)

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