“Your average massage therapist typically has six or seven years in the industry before they have to change careers due to injury,” says massage therapist of 20 years Kayleigh Purser, founder of The Purser Method – amethod of deep tissue massage therapy with the main focus being the health and wellbeing of the practitioner.
Award-winning independent beauty therapist Anna Tsankova adds: “Therapists rarely do any sort of stretching exercise or preparation on the day before they start work, despite massage being a very physical job. Unfortunately, therapist wellness and injury prevention is not often included in curriculums, aside from ‘keep your back straight’.”