Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Welcome to the November-December issue of the Journal of Massage Science! Here is a quick review of its content.

Our Person of the Month for this issue is Mike Hinkle, LMT, founder of the World Massage Festival. He shares with our readers his professional experiences and current and future plans for the World Massage Festival.

In this issue, in the Science of Pediatric Massage section, we have started the publication of the article about Infant Massage. In the first part, we reviewed the modern theoretical foundation of massage for pre-term infants. In Part II of this article, which we will publish in the next issue of JMS, we will cover some clinical aspects of massage application for pre-term infants.

In this issue, we finished the three-part article on TMJ Dysfunction. In the final part, we presented the MEDICAL MASSAGE PROTOCOL and homework stretches for the client to speed up treatment and prevent similar problems in the future.

Our Case of the Month, contributed by N. Slipka, LMT, illustrates the clinical effectiveness of medical massage as a last line of defense before surgery.

As usual, our Good Apples/Bad Apples section guides our readers to important publications in the massage literature and points out weak or misleading pieces.

Sincerely,
Dr. Ross Turchaninov, MD


Category: Letter From The Editor

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