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READER FORUM For Your Clients I am a subscriber to your magazine and just found the Fingertips for the Client department amazing. Thank you so much. This is a valuable tool for us LMTs to use as a tool to educate our clients. I will be incorporating your Fingertips from now on. Thanks for such a relevant tool. JACKY GROENEWEGEN MIDDLETOWN, OHIO Not Funny/Funny I was incredibly disappointed with Robert Chute's quiz in the July/ August 2008 issue ("What Kind of Therapist Are You?" page 56) for a number of reasons. Before having read it, I thought, "Great, I can learn a little more about where I compare to other types of massage therapists! And perhaps learn something new to help me network myself with other therapists, or give me a gauge of where my strengths/weaknesses are." What Kind of Therapist Are You? Recognize and Learn Your Style in 20 Questions BY ROBERT CHUTE I s there truth in stereotypes? The answer is debatable, but oftentimes we learn from them. Following are some questions that may give you insight into stereotypes you will probably recognize. When you see yourself in the answers it will be as irritating as sand in your bathing suit. When you let others know you see them in the following portrayals, they will be irritated—and educated. massagetherapy.com—for you and your clients 57 This had the potential to be valuable to those of us interested in learning more about ourselves. Instead, I truly felt it was a waste of time and making fun at others' expenses. According to his bio, Robert Chute is funny. Maybe he is funny. I just didn't fi nd this quiz funny, appropriate, or informative in any way when it came to hoping to learn something valuable and applicable to our profession. JENNY PROCTOR CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA I just got my latest copy of Massage & Bodywork and thoroughly enjoyed a good laugh after reading your article "What Kind of Therapist Are You?" I'm actually heading to a staff meeting for work and am planning on sharing the fun with my coworkers. SCOT MAITLAND AUSTIN, TEXAS After reading only a few questions and answer options, however, the stereotypes emanating from the pages were very clear. The answers appear so inside-joke, sarcastic, and unrealistic that I am not sure what value they held. Why would anyone fi tting into stereotypes C and D even have a professional interest in massage therapy, let alone have a subscription to Massage & Bodywork magazine to fi nd out what kind of therapist they are? I just had to write you after reading Robert Chute's witty article in Massage & Bodywork magazine. As a fellow therapist who is also an avid writer, I absolutely love his work. I read it today on and off during my down times, and it made me take in a deep breath and chuckle relentlessly at myself. I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing his talent with us! BETH WARD JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Massage & Bodywork would like to credit Al Gardner for the images in Carole Osborne's "Health Maintenance" article on pages 76, 77, 79, 81, and 83 of the July/August 2008 issue. massagetherapy.com—for you and your clients 17