FYE: Valediction

Valediction

You’ve done a great deal of valuable work as you've made your way through this book.

You’ve engaged courageously with some very difficult and challenging issues that confront our emerging profession.

You’ve stood up for better, more accurate, and more valid information for clients, for students and practitioners of massage, and for the interdisciplinary professional team.

You’ve laid the groundwork for building bridges to patient/client-centered biomedical healthcare professionals, so that we can work together as peers and as teammates, whose contributions are mutually respected and valued. Just as Starfield observed, with those clear goals and our sense of mission, we have the opportunity to create a much better system than the current one—by accurately, ethically, and justifiably breaking down the barriers that block clients from receiving massage.

The future of professional massage is in your hands, literally and figuratively. Now let's go out and write history for our clients and for all of us!

The Touch of Hands. By Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia (The Touch of Hands) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AThe_Touch_of_Hands_(7015509987).jpg