Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Welcome to Issue #1, 2015 of JMS. We start this year with some changes in the structure of the journal. Here is what you will find in the new issue of JMS:

Thanks for voting! We now have the winner of the Case of the Month contest for 2014.

The Person of the Month for this issue is Holley Eubank, CMT, who became the winner of the Case of the Month Contest. Her interview will show readers where medical massage can take them and open new professional possibilities.

We also determined the winner of our Appreciation Award for the Best Massage Therapy Publication in the USA.

In this issue, we started a new section of JMS called News from the Clinic. We see JMS as a place where therapists may find scientifically based theoretical and, even more importantly, practical information they may apply immediately in the massage room. For this reason, we decided to share with you interesting cases we encountered in our Phoenix and Los Angeles clinics. We hope that you will enjoy this addition and use it in your practice.

In the Science of Medical Massage section of JMS, we published two articles:

In this issue, we present the two-part article ‘Manual Lymph Drainage As A Supportive Therapy In The Management Of Ascites. A Guide For Hospice And Palliative Care Therapists’ written by John F. Mramor, MA, LMT, NCTMB, CR, RM.

The first part discusses the nature of ascites as a medical problem and the tools modern medicine uses to fight this complex pathological condition.

The second article is the third and final installment of our article ‘How Massage Heals The Body: Clinical Application Of Gate Control And Neuromatrix Theories Of Pain’ written by Dr. Ross Turchaninov. In two previous issues of JMS, #3 and #4 in 2014, we discussed the clinical value of the Gate Control and Neuromatrix Theories of Pain. The topic of this final part is the interactive clinical application of both theories within one session when the therapist tries to efficiently control the patient’s pain-analyzing system.

The contribution to the Case of the Month section of JMS, “MEDICAL MASSAGE vs. CHRONIC ELBOW PAIN,” came from Shea Shulman, LMT, from Florida. Her submission illustrated the clinical effectiveness of Periosteal Massage as a clinical tool to eliminate chronic elbow pain.

As usual, you will find a lot of useful information and professional guidance in our Good Apples/Bad Apples section of JMS.

Dr. Ross Turchaninov, Editor in Chief


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