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Body.Work: Client or Patient?

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Adrienne Marie Wood
Jul 12, 2023
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We've finished the eighteen muscles of the shoulder and are moving on to the neck this week. A classmate had a nasty headache yesterday, so our teacher demonstrated treating the neck. After about a half hour treatment (plus a bottle of water and a much-needed granola bar), the headache was gone.

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