Anne is the Director of Education and co-founder of Massage Mastery Online, specializing in digital textbooks that make learning more efficient, effective, and enjoyable. Anne is a licensed massage therapist (27 years), an aromatherapist, a certified reflexologist, a spa consultant, an author, and an educator (formally an esthetician and registered counselor). She is the former Director of Education for Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP), where she pursued her passion for instructional design and developed support materials and resources for massage students, instructors, schools, and professional members from 2006 until 2019.

Before working with ABMP, Anne was a massage instructor for eight years, emphasizing curriculum development and program implementation for Ashmead College in Washington State, and in 2004 became their director of education at the Tacoma campus. She has offered several continuing education programs, including workshops on hot stone massage, aromatherapy, spa therapies, and reflexology.

Anne has served on the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards (FSMTB) test writing committee and worked with the dynamic team at ABMP to develop ABMP's Student Life Program, ABMP Exam Coach, ABMP 5-Minute Muscles, and many other resources for schools and instructors. She also wrote the curriculum for the "Instructors on the Front Lines" massage teacher training program for ABMP from 2008 to 2019 and the content for the ABMP School Forum from 2007 to 2019. In addition, she is the author of Spa Bodywork: A Guide for Massage Therapists, 2nd Edition (2016), and Massage Mastery: From Student to Professional (2013), both previously published in print by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

Anne served as project leader for the Entry-Level Analysis Project (ELAP). This research project described what a person must know and be able to do to practice massage safely and competently at the entry level. The ELAP curriculum blueprint outlines the learning outcomes and objectives all schools should teach in foundational education and was published in 2013 by the Coalition of National Massage Therapy Organizations. In addition, Anne partnered with Eric Brown and the team at ABMP to produce the ABMP Business Summit, ABMP Back Pain Summit, Eric Dalton Online Workshop, and ABMP Head & Neck Summit, attracting more than 16,000 registrants and hosting more than 7,000 people online, live at one time.

Eric Brown started his massage career in 1989 in Canada. He worked in private practice for 20 years, managing two successful massage clinics in downtown Toronto. He has taught extensively in the advanced massage training colleges in Canada, developing curricula in massage theory, physiology, assessment, and technique. Eric was also involved in developing the Standards of Practice for massage legislation in Ontario, Canada.

In the early ’90s, Eric pioneered chair massage in Canada and has worked with some of the largest companies in Canada, including IBM, Dell, Levi Stauss, Kellogg, Amex, as well as major hospitals, banks, law firms, and financial institutions. He opened a massage school in 1994 and managed the school until 2011, training over 1,000 students. 

In 1999 he started BodyworkBiz, one of the first companies providing massage business and marketing classes online. In 2006 he established Massage Therapy Radio and, with his partners, produced over 200 podcasts. In 2008, he launched World Massage Conference, the first online conference in the massage profession. It featured some of the top leaders in the profession and produced over 400 online presentations. It was the largest event in the massage profession year after year for ten years before being sold to ABMP in 2018.

In collaboration with the Education Department at ABMP, Eric produced the ABMP Business Summit, ABMP Back Pain Summit, Eric Dalton Online Workshop, and ABMP Head & Neck Summit, attracting more than 16,000 registrants and hosting more than 7,000 people online, live at one time. He has written extensively for massage journals internationally and has served as the editor-in-chief for Canadian RMT. He is the author of five number one bestsellers on Amazon, including 60 Clients in 60 Days and Fill Your Practice 101.   

Today, Eric lives in Louisville, Colorado, where he pursues his passion for online education in partnership with his wife, Anne Williams, and his passion for photography.

Define disease and recognize broad categories of diseases. Differentiate between infectious and noninfectious diseases.

Recognize different types of infectious agents, especially those that cause problems in massage clinics.

Learn about the chain of infection and different modes of transmission. By understanding these concepts, you’ll understand how preventative measures work.

Update your knowledge of Standard Precautions and practice Standard Precautions consistently. Use personal protective equipment, respiratory and cough etiquette, and correct hand hygiene.

Maintain a clean massage workplace by using the correct cleaning supplies and following effective protocols for cleaning session rooms, handling linens, handling products, and cleaning common areas.

Practice exceptional professional hygiene by understanding the reasons behind physical hygiene and professional dress. Manage challenging situations like therapist allergies successfully.

Prevent the spread of common infectious diseases at your massage business, including the common cold, fungal infections, hepatitis, HIV, lice, and mites.  

Review the historical chapter on COVID infections to remember how the massage profession responded to the pandemic with “supercharged” hygiene and safety protocols.

The thoughtful instructional design of this textbook organizes contents into carefully sequenced learning chunks. You can finish topics in short study sessions (an average of 20 minutes). The sensation of making regular progress improves learning motivation.

So long as you use Chrome as your browser, therapists with English as a second language can instantly translate the text into their native language, so they never miss a concept.

Concepts come alive with striking imagery and appealing graphic design. Printed textbooks are limited by page number and keep visuals to a minimum. In the digital world, more is more when it comes to visual aids. This textbook boasts 187 images.

Standard textbook features like introductions, learning objectives, summaries, references, and resources get a digital upgrade with subtle animations and click-to-view options that invite learners to engage with content they might otherwise skip over.

Clever web navigation puts the entire textbook a click away and provides an ongoing outline to help therapists mentally frame the content they are learning.

Learning games strengthen concept comprehension, memory recall, and critical-thinking skills. Games give instant feedback, so therapists never reinforce incorrect information. Games can be reset for repeated content drill and practice. This textbook includes 18 learning games in the “Apply It!” topic of each lesson.  

Download a cleaning product supply list and recommendations, a sample welcome back to massage letter, policy and procedure updates related to COVID, and workplace posters for hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, and cough etiquette.

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TEXTBOOK INTRODUCTION

LESSON 1: AN OVERVIEW OF DISEASE

• Terminology Preview
• Defining Disease
• Noninfectious Diseases
• Infectious Diseases
• Apply It!
• Quiz

LESSON 2: TYPES OF INFECTIOUS AGENTS

• Terminology Preview
• Bacteria
• Viruses
• Fungi
• Parasites
• Apply It!
• Quiz

LESSON 3: DISEASE TRANSMISSION

• Terminology Preview
• Chain of Infection
• Modes of Transmission
• Apply It!
• Quiz

LESSON 4: STANDARD PRECAUTIONS

• Terminology Preview
• Hand Hygiene
• Use of Personal Protective Equipment
• Respiratory Hygiene and Cough Etiquette
• Proper Clean Up of Blood and Body Fluid
• Apply It!
• Quiz

LESSON 5: MAINTAINING A CLEAN MASSAGE WORKPLACE

• Terminology Preview
• Cleaning Supplies
• Cleaning Your Session Room
• Handling Linens Properly
• Handling Products Properly
• Cleaning Common Areas at Your Workplace
• Apply It!
• Quiz

LESSON 6: PROFESSIONAL HYGIENE

• Terminology Preview
• Physical Hygiene
• Professional Dress
• Challenging Therapist Situations
• Apply It!
• Quiz

LESSON 7: INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND YOUR MASSAGE PRACTICE

• Terminology Preview
• The Common Cold
• Fungal Infections
• Hepatitis Infections
• HIV/AIDS
• Lice and Mites
• Apply It!
• Quiz

LESSON 8: HUMAN CORONAVIRUSES

• Terminology Preview
• An Overview of Human Coronaviruses
• COVID-19 – What We Know
• Considerations for Reopening
• Supercharge Your Facility
• Supercharge Your Policies & Procedures
• Supercharge Your Cleaning
• Supercharge Your Safety
• Video Safety Training & Resources
• Apply It!
• Quiz

FINAL TEXTBOOK EXAMINATION