Dear colleagues,
Welcome to JMS’s issue #1 of 2026! We invite you to learn about Massage Science.
Our Person of the Month is Kimberly Merryman, LMT, CMMP. JMS readers voted for her clinical submission, ‘Medical Massage Therapy vs. Rett Syndrome,’ as the Winner of SOMI’s 2026 International Case of the Month Competition!
In the Medical Massage section, we published the following articles:
In Part III of Treating the Pain is Chasing the Tail, Dr. Ross Turchaninov returns to the discussion of the pain phenomenon and its control through Medical Massage. Part III is dedicated to Therapist’s First Enemy – Hyperirritability of Peripheral Receptors.
Boris Prilutsky, LMT, MA, SOMI’s a regular contributor and sends us interesting new article ‘Medical Massage Simplyfying a Complex Matter’
In the Case of the Month section, we published an exceptional clinical case titled “Seventeen-Level Spinal Fusion And Posttraumatic Anterior Scalene Syndrome vs. Medical Massage” by Troy Flathau, LMT, CMMP from Jeddo, MI.
Troy recently graduated from SOMI’s Medical Massage Certification Program, and readers can see firsthand the quality of SOMI’s training and the clinical expertise of our former and current students!
Thank you!
Dr. Ross Turchaninov, Editor in Chief
Category: Letter From The Editor
Tags: 2026 Issue #1
