Massage and Clients with Disabilities

Susan Salvo, B. Ed., LMT, N.T.S., C.I.,
Massage Therapy Instructor

Susan G. Salvo, B. Ed., LMT, N.T.S, C.I. is a Nationally Certified, State Licensed Massage Therapist, and Natural Therapeutic Specialist. In 1982, she completed a 1000 hour program at New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics. Ms. Salvo's training includes: polarity, infant massage instructor, myotherapy, Trager, hakomi, reflexology, sports massage, craniosacral therapy, neuromuscular therapy, body mobilization techniques, spa specialist, and watsu. She has studied under many talented people including Bonnie Prudden, Ben Benjamin, David Lauterstein, Bob King, Benny Vaughn, Aaron Mattes, Ruth Werner, Maria Mathias, and Harold Dull. She owns and operates Bodyworks Massage Therapy by Susan Salvo and Associates which she founded in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1983. In 1987, Ms Salvo opened the Louisiana Institute of Massage Therapy in Lake Charles, which is a premiere massage school. Ms. Salvo is a charter member of the Louisiana Chapter of the American Massage Therapy Association. In 1987, she founded the Louisiana AMTA sports massage team, which is still active today. Over the span of her career, Ms. Salvo has been honored with numerous awards. In 1989, she was honored with the American Massage Therapy Association’s Member of the Year award and, in 2003, with their Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1995, Louisiana Governor Edwin W. Edwards presented Ms Salvo with the Pacesetter Award for business achievement. Later that year, she was honored with the title, Business Person of the Year by the American Business Women’s Association. The following year, she received the 1996 State Small Business Person of the Year Award from Louisiana Governor Murphy J. “Mike” Foster, and the first Eagle Award for Business Achievement by the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury. In 1997 the Times of Lake Charles featured her as one of “Forty Under Forty” for outstanding achievement among local young people. Ms. Salvo is a nationally known author, having written Massage Therapy: Principles and Practice and Mosby’s Guide to Pathology for the Massage Therapist, both published by Elsevier. Ms. Salvo has participated with the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork as a member of their test item writing committee and with the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards as a member of their standard setting team.