by David Palmer | Dec 27, 2025 | Bodywork, Chair Massage, Politics
Why the regulations designed to protect the profession actually limit its reach By David Palmer The American massage profession has spent decades fighting for legitimacy. At the heart of this struggle has been a critical mission: separating professional massage from...
by David Palmer | Dec 6, 2017 | Chair Massage, Touch
Last Saturday I had the opportunity to share chair massage at a PTO fundraising event for our local Annie Vinton Elementary School. It felt good to be promoting positive touch in this era of such nasty news. For some subliminal education, in the background I looped a...
by David Palmer | Jul 15, 2016 | Business, Chair Massage
[Click to download a PDF of the press release version.] France recently became the first country in the world to recognize seated massage as an occupational category with a professional certification. On June 7, 2016, the National Professional Certification Commission...
by David Palmer | Mar 29, 2016 | Chair Massage, History
When I was first approached by The History Channel last July (2015) about filming a segment on the massage chair for a series on contemporary inventions and inventors, I didn’t get my hopes up. After all, how many of these programs actually get made? But, after...
by David Palmer | Oct 2, 2014 | Chair Massage, Marketing
Here is a recent email from a massage student: I will be graduating in December and have to write a business plan. I need to decide how chair massage will fit into the plan but don’t have much direction from school. I’m hoping you have some marketing...
