Meet Your Therapist, Patrick Emerson
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After graduating from the Florida Academy of Massage in 1995, Patrick Emerson returned to the Fargo area and began his massage therapy career working out of chiropractic offices. After about 4 years he realized that his massage schooling had not prepared him to treat those who were suffering with pain.
Using the Relaxation/Swedish model taught to him in school, any positive results achieved with clients were temporary at best. The seminars Emerson attended at the time taught the “rub where it hurts” model, which he found to be ineffective. After 7 years of practice, Emerson was frustrated and worse, bored. |
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While driving to Bismarck for the ND chapter of the American Massage Therapy Association Convention, he was trying to decide how to tell his pregnant wife, along with their four and two year old children, that he might return to college to pursue a degree as a healthcare professional. That year the presenter at the AMTA Convention was Paul St. John. Emerson had heard good things about St. John's method of Neuromuscular therapy, or Therapeutic Massage.
While listening to the presentation, Emerson was baffled as to why this method wasn't being taught in every massage school in the country. This was the true massage therapy! When St. John demonstrated his therapy method, Emerson felt that he had seen a miracle and described the moment as the epiphany that gave him the realization he "did not have to go back to college and could stay a massage therapist!". He now knew that Therapeutic Massage was what he was meant to do. Since then, Emerson has attended all of the St. John's seminars. He has been fortunate to have been taught by Paul St. John personally, as well as by his excellent instructors. Four years after his epiphany, Emerson became certified in the St. John Method of Neuromuscular Therapy. Pat has been a certified neuromuscular therapist for over 22 years and has been a practicing licensed massage therapist for over 28 years. |
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Meet Your Therapist, John Emerson
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Over the last few years, John Emerson has been studying massage therapy techniques and in April of 2023 he became a Licensed Massage Therapist after graduating at the top of his class. Massage provides John the ability to meet people from all walks of life and gives him the opportunity to help them manage a healthy and potentially pain-free lifestyle.
Having a father in therapeutic massage, John has relied on massage therapy to treat pain from normal daily activities as well as injuries he has received from sports. Through these personal experiences, John knows the value that therapeutic massage can provide. As Patrick has gotten older, John realized letting the way his father does massage couldn't end with him. That wouldn't give justice to all the hard work Patrick Emerson has put forth. With that, John Emerson has decided to follow in his father's footsteps with hopes to live up to the wonderful name and style of massage that Patrick Emerson delivers. |
Contact Emerson Therapeutic MassageMonday - Thursday: 8:30 am - 9:00 pm
Friday: 8:30 am - 6:30 pm Saturday: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm by appointment |
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Prayer of St. Francis Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
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Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen |
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