Massage Therapy Journal

AMTA's award-winning publication focuses on massage therapy techniques and research, practical self-care tips, and business practice.

Each issue of Massage Therapy Journal features research-based articles on the practice of massage to provide you the most up-to-date information to help serve your clients.

Person laying supine with a massage therapist's hand cupping face

Summer 2020

A Special Message from AMTA President, Angela Barker

Can Massage Therapy Enhance Mental Health?

Stretching Into Self-Care

Go for the Gold

Research: Post-Op Relief

Client Outreach: Improving Sleep and Managing Stress

Recent Issues

Spring 2020

A Conversation with Michael Phelps

Post-Surgury Relief for Pain

Is Massage Nature's Sleep Aid?

Research Literacy: Massage and Sleep

Massage Therapy for Workplace Injuries

Client Outreach: Massage Before Cataract Surgery

Winter 2019

Don't Shoulder the Pain

Progress for All

Research: Can Massage Therapy Help Address Shoulder Pain?

Fall 2019

Renew Your Mind

Promising Approaches to Pain Relief

Massage Therapy & Autoimmune Disorders

Client Outreach: Nonpharmacological Approaches to Pain

Research: Cumulative Effects of Regular Massage

Summer 2019

When the Going Gets Tough

Massage Therapy for Patients With Cancer

Research Literacy: Seniors + Integrative Health

Restoring Balance

Spring 2019

Integrative Health Care + Massage Therapy

When It's You Who is in Chronic Pain

True Tales: Case Study Spotlight

1 Minute With Robert Kerns, Ph.D., Yale University

Read more: Massage Therapy Journal Archive