PetMassage Paw Prints

You know, of course, that Jonathan Rudinger, the president and director of PetMassage is also the founder and president of the IAAMB, International Association of Animal Massage and Bodywork. In the IAAMB arena, we have a goal of creating an active database/library of research papers. Please be not frightened or intimidated by the idea of doing a research project. We are not looking for PhD level dissertations. If you would like to do a small study, we’ll help you. It will be fun, easy and rewarding… three good things. We simply want to begin the process of documenting the effects and opportunities of animal massage and bodywork. Some of the things we may be believing and teaching may have their sources in myth, rather than science. We want to document these, as well. For example, what is the truth about massaging the ankles of pregnant people and animals? Your papers will be peer reviewed and discussed. Then, we can publish them in the IAAMB Journal, a publication that will come into existence when we have content for it. We are not quite there. Yet.

As a professional group, we are serious about growing and developing our profession, our credibility, and our market. So, we need this step. If you are an IAAMB member, you will soon be able to go on the IAAMB.org site to download a copy of a project that we created, with the help and guidance of the Touch Research Institute, led by Dr. Tiffany Field and her excellent team of researchers. The TRI is interested solely in doing research on the effects of touch and massage with humans. They wish us well on our ambitious goals of documenting the effects of touch and massage with animals. Please use my original PetMassage study as a template for your own. If you are not yet a member, join us today and begin contributing to our greater knowledge base.

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