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January 30, 2008
A Legally Blind Massage Therapist
The Vail Daily News profiles a local massage therapist who happens to be legally blind.
Lambert began to think about studying massage therapy after he was treated by a blind massage therapist for back pain.
“I was amazed by the professionalism (of the treatment) and the healing that it brought,” he said.
Lambert decided that the business world was not for him and ended up in Saratosa, Fla. studying massage therapy.
It was a challenge, because he had to make it through school without a reader, a computer or any books on tape, he said.
“It was hard to conceptualize the muscles and movement of the body sometimes,” he said. “I had to learn hundreds of ligaments and muscles completely blind.”
It was frustrating when teachers seemed impressed that he could even do the most routine massage procedures, he said.
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