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									<h1 class="post-title">Texas Massage Therapists Reach Out After Hurricane Harvey</h1>
<ul class="post-meta clearfix no-sep"><li class="post-date"><span class="fa fa-clock-o"></span>September 7, 2017</li><li class="post-author"><span class="fa fa-user"></span><a href="https://www.massagemag.com/author/kmenehan/" rel="author" data-wpel-link="internal">Karen Menehan</a></li><li class="post-categories"><span class="fa fa-bars"></span><ul class="list-inline"><li><a href="https://www.massagemag.com/massage-news/" data-wpel-link="internal">Massage News</a></li></ul></li></ul>								</div>
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                              <div id="attachment_86427" style="max-width: 760px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif" data-lazy-src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/First-responder-gets-massage.jpg" class="wp-image-86427 size-full" alt="The response following Hurricane Harvey is another sobering example how people in the massage profession help relieve pain and stress in first responders." width="750" height="422" srcset="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/First-responder-gets-massage.jpg 750w, https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/First-responder-gets-massage-300x169.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px"><noscript><img class="wp-image-86427 size-full" src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/First-responder-gets-massage.jpg" alt="The response following Hurricane Harvey is another sobering example how people in the massage profession help relieve pain and stress in first responders." width="750" height="422" srcset="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/First-responder-gets-massage.jpg 750w, https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/First-responder-gets-massage-300x169.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px"></noscript><p class="wp-caption-text">A first responder stationed at Katy High School, in Katy, Texas, receives massage therapy. Photo courtesy of Kristen Genchur</p></div>
<p>The response following Hurricane Harvey&mdash;which made landfall Aug. 25 in Rockport, Texas, before blowing through the state&rsquo;s southeast over several days&mdash;is another sobering example how people in the massage profession help relieve pain and stress in first responders.</p>
<p>Among the more harrowing images of Hurricane Harvey news coverage were those of citizens and rescue personnel in boats&mdash;not traversing lakes or rives, but traveling down flooded city streets as they searched for and found survivors.</p>
<p>Massage therapist Kirsten Genchur felt first-hand the effects of those search-and-rescue missions in the muscles of first responders she massaged while set up at Katy High School in Katy, Texas, a city that Harvey left under water in many areas.</p><div class="massa-mid-article" style="text-align: center; " id="massa-570476715"><ins data-revive-zoneid="4" data-revive-id="3b4355b0b746da066cefcdafdbd9c7a8"></ins>
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<p>&ldquo;A lot of&nbsp;them, what&nbsp;they were doing was pulling boats in and out of the water all day, and sometimes they would have to walk [through water] too,&rdquo; Genchur told <em>MASSAGE Magazine</em>. &ldquo;Their shoulders and forearms were on fire because they were lugging heavy boats in and out and then jumping in and out [of the boats] as part of search and rescue.&rdquo;</p>
<div id="attachment_86428" style="max-width: 390px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif" data-lazy-src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Lauren-Allen.jpg" class=" wp-image-86428" alt width="380" height="507" srcset="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Lauren-Allen.jpg 720w, https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Lauren-Allen-225x300.jpg 225w, https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Lauren-Allen-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Lauren-Allen-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Lauren-Allen-354x472.jpg 354w" sizes="(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px"><noscript><img class=" wp-image-86428" src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Lauren-Allen.jpg" alt="" width="380" height="507" srcset="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Lauren-Allen.jpg 720w, https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Lauren-Allen-225x300.jpg 225w, https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Lauren-Allen-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Lauren-Allen-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Lauren-Allen-354x472.jpg 354w" sizes="(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px"></noscript><p class="wp-caption-text">Massage therapist Lauren Allen volunteered massage in a shelter following Hurricane Harvey. Photo courtesy of Ashley Sellers</p></div>
<p>All that walking through water, she added, led to hip and calf issues. She saw many first responders limping down the high school&rsquo;s hallways.</p>
<p>She worked for three days on members of the U.S. Army, Marines, Department of Public Safety, and Texas State Guard. Many of those first responders got by on two or three hours of sleep a night, working 16- to 20-hours shifts each day, with those hours of sleep spent on the high school&rsquo;s floors, Genchur said.</p>
<p>Genchur doesn&rsquo;t practice massage in Katy; she practices in Austin, Texas, 136 miles away. She has provided massage to first responders following fire and flood in the past, so when she heard how damaged Katy was, she called a client who worked for the DPS and asked him if she could be of assistance.</p>
<p>&ldquo;He said, &lsquo;absolutely, we&rsquo;ll get you out here as soon as we can, because they are definitely hurting,&rsquo;&rdquo; Genchur recalled. She loaded her massage table into her car and drove to Katy, where over the next five days the 100 people working under her client performed 1,500 water rescues, according to an email the client sent to her.</p>
<p>Hurricane Harvey has killed, as of this writing, 60 people, according to multiple news reports; damage from it, Texas Governor Greg Abbot told Reuters, could cost up to $180 billion. As of Sept. 6, more than 14,000 single-family homes had been destroyed across the state, according to news reports. Most of the damage and deaths are due to flooding.</p>
<h3>Have Chair, Will Travel</h3>
<p>When massage therapist Ashley Sellers realized she had been spared the damage and flooding affecting so many of her fellow Texans, she, like Genchur, knew what she needed to do: Find a way to help.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I felt if you live here and you didn&rsquo;t suffer, you should be helping,&rdquo; Sellers, who owns Skin Deep Massage in Seabrook and Clear Lake, Texas, told <em>MASSAGE Magazine</em>.</p>
<p>So, she packed up her massage chair and her service dog Trapper and made her way to the League City Police Department. League City has a population of 95,000 and is located in Galveston County, about 30 miles south of Houston. Some areas of League City flooded.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The National Guard was stationed [at the police department] for the hurricane and sleeping in the jails,&rdquo; Sellers said. &ldquo;All staff was required to work, no matter what their personal situation was, even if their house flooded. As a result, a lot of officers had their families and pets all living inside the police station.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In all, about 200 people were living in the police station, she said.</p>
<div id="attachment_86431" style="max-width: 710px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif" data-lazy-src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Ashley-with-Natl-Guard.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-86431" alt width="700" height="374" srcset="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Ashley-with-Natl-Guard.jpg 700w, https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Ashley-with-Natl-Guard-300x160.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-86431" src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Ashley-with-Natl-Guard.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="374" srcset="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Ashley-with-Natl-Guard.jpg 700w, https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MT-Ashley-with-Natl-Guard-300x160.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px"></noscript><p class="wp-caption-text">Massage therapist Ashley Sellers (middle, blue shirt) with members of the National Guard, the U.S. Air Force, and the Dickinson Police Department, at the Dickinson, Texas, police station, where massage therapists have been working on service personnel. Photo courtesy of Ashley Sellers</p></div>
<p>Sellers obtained permission from Police Chief Michael Kramm to set up her massage chair in the lobby, and then she began posting to Facebook to rally colleagues to help provide needed touch.</p>
<p>She also contacted Police Chief Daniel Presley, in the city of Webster, less than three miles away, &ldquo;and he was very excited about massage therapists coming to his station,&rdquo; Sellers said.</p>
<p>She said Chief Presley told her staff that they were required to stay at the police station 24/7, and some personnel was having some emotional difficulty. Soon, massage therapists Jurwana Schlesinger, Julie Jackson and Brittaney Wells had set up a massage area at the police station.</p>
<h3>Caring Connection</h3>
<p>Massage therapy has been shown to support relaxation and stress relief, and massage therapists have volunteered to work on first responders and other service personnel since at least 1989.</p>
<p>That year, massage therapist <a href="https://www.massagemag.com/james-charlesworth-first-massage-therapist-to-mobilize-emergency-response-teams-19572010-7451/" data-wpel-link="internal">James &ldquo;Jim&rdquo; Charlesworth (1957&ndash;2010)</a>, was an admissions counselor for the National Holistic Institute in Emeryville, California, when the Loma Prieta Earthquake hit. He mobilized volunteers to provide up to 8,000 massages to service personnel, including first responders.</p>
<p>Since then, massage therapists, schools and companies over the past years have responded in the aftermaths of such calamities as floods, <a href="https://www.massagemag.com/massage-therapy-and-acupuncture-aid-disaster-evacuees-11388/" data-wpel-link="internal">earthquakes</a>, fires, <a href="https://www.massagemag.com/after-superstorm-sandy-massage-therapists-reach-out-11784/" data-wpel-link="internal">storms</a>, shootings, <a href="https://www.massagemag.com/massage-therapists-report-from-the-boston-tragedy-12467/" data-wpel-link="internal">terrorist attacks</a> and <a href="https://www.massagemag.com/dermalogica-supports-oklahoma-disaster-recovery-12669/" data-wpel-link="internal">tornadoes</a>.</p>
<h3>Lots of Outreach</h3>
<p>Despite the absence of coordinated efforts, massage therapists, businesses and school personnel are taking matters into their own hands and reaching out to Texans in need. Just a few examples of this type of outreach are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Staff at The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School, in Austin, is collecting diapers and baby wipes to transport to Houston. &ldquo;These seem to be among the most badly needed supplies,&rdquo; said school co-owner David Lauterstein in a post online.</li>
<li>Pamela Ellen Ferguson, Dipl.ABT, L.M.T., Billie Barkwell, L.M.T.,along with additional massage therapsits; yoga, Asian bodywork and art therapists; and acupuncturists, assisted first responders, FEMA employees, evacuees and volunteers at the Unitarian Universalist Wildflower Church in South Austin.</li>
<li>Independent Massage Envy franchise owners in the Houston area started <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/me-houston-hurricane-harvey-relief" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer">a Go Fund Me campaign to raise funds for displaced franchise employees</a>, which as of Sept. 6 had raised more than $38,000 of its $50,000 goal.</li>
<li>The Hand &amp; Stone corporate office is also using <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/hurricane-harvey-relief-fund-hs" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer">a Go Fund Me campaign to raise funds for affected franchise employees</a>, which as of Sept. 3 had raised more than $35,000 of its $30,000 goal.</li>
<li>Massage Heights retreats across Houston are offering a 50 percent discount on massages for first responders Sept. 4-8.</li>
<li><em>MASSAGE Magazine</em>&rsquo;s parent company, The Doyle Group, donated $1,000 to the <a href="https://ghcf.org" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer">Greater Houston Community Foundation</a>.</li>
<li>A Texas massage practice, Healing Sole Barefoot Massage, has announced paid work available for displaced Ashiatsu Barefoot massage therapists.</li>
<li>Many massage clinics and spas throughout the affected area are donating a portion of proceeds to hurricane relief efforts, including North Light Animal Massage, whose owner is donating 50 percent of all massage income during the month of September to the animal rescue organization of the client&rsquo;s choice.</li>
</ul>
<div id="attachment_86432" style="max-width: 710px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif" data-lazy-src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Chief-Presley-with-MTs.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-86432" alt width="700" height="394" srcset="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Chief-Presley-with-MTs.jpg 700w, https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Chief-Presley-with-MTs-300x169.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-86432" src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Chief-Presley-with-MTs.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="394" srcset="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Chief-Presley-with-MTs.jpg 700w, https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Chief-Presley-with-MTs-300x169.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px"></noscript><p class="wp-caption-text">Massage therapists (L-R): Jurwana Schlesinger, Julie Jackson and Brittaney Wells stand with Police Chief Daniel Presley at the Webster, Texas, police station, where massage has been offered following Hurricane Harvey. Photo courtesy of Ashley Sellers.</p></div>
<h3>Ongoing Efforts</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.massagemag.com/texas-massage-therapist-requirements/" data-wpel-link="internal">Texas is home to more than 26,000 massage therapists</a>, some of whom will no doubt volunteer massage while many others will need ongoing assistance as the floodwaters recede.</p>
<p>Damage from widespread flooding and winds means area residents have just begun &ldquo;the long wait,&rdquo; according to a Sept. 3 article in the <em>Houston Chronicle</em>.</p>
<p>But if history is a teacher in this regard, the stress, tension and pain that lodges in the bodies of first responders and other service personnel will be relieved by the helping hands of massage therapists willing to step up, reach out, and volunteer healing touch in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.</p>
<p>Kirsten Genchur, the massage therapist who drove from Austin to provide massage to first responders staying at Katy High School, described how touch helps in a way that is simple yet profound: &ldquo;When they&rsquo;re feeling better, they&rsquo;re able to go and do more rescues, to do more when they&rsquo;re feeling their best. I was helping people help more people.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>About the Author</strong></p>
<p>Karen Menehan is <em>MASSAGE Magazine</em>&rsquo;s editor in chief. Her recent articles for massagemag.com include <a href="https://www.massagemag.com/getting-heart-prejudice-health-care-35598/" data-wpel-link="internal">&ldquo;Getting to the Heart of Prejudice in Health Care,&rdquo; </a><a href="https://www.massagemag.com/massage-chair-celebrates-30-years-36339/" data-wpel-link="internal">&ldquo;The Massage Chair Celebrates 30 Years,&rdquo;</a> and <a href="https://www.massagemag.com/70-percent" data-wpel-link="internal">&ldquo;70 Percent of Hospital <img src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif" data-lazy-src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/headshot_Karen-Menehan_Massage-Magazine.jpg" class="wp-image-83086 alignleft" alt width="87" height="123"><noscript><img class="wp-image-83086 alignleft" src="https://cdn.massagemag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/headshot_Karen-Menehan_Massage-Magazine.jpg" alt="" width="87" height="123"></noscript>Patients Will Pay for Massage.&rdquo;</a></p>
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