Therapist applies pressure and massage
By Robert Richardson
Senior Reporter
Bill Yeager isn't a doctor, and
he doesn't play one on TV. But he
is a licensed massage therapist and
owner of Keys To Healing, 822 S.
48th St.
Yeager's technique is a combi
nation of massage and accu pres
sure that is "thousands of years
old," he said.
"There's been different meth
ods as time went on," Yeager said.
"They called it Swedish massage
for a long time."
Yeager rubs muscles in the body
and applies pressure on certain
points to create energy.
"By putting pressure on places
where it hurts, it brings the energy
to that part of the body to heal,"
Yeager said. "And that brings in
all the forces, blood and energy
and anything that will fight dis
eases or injuries."
But there is a difference in
massage and accupressure, Yea
ger said. Massage is working the
muscles, and accupressure is hit
ting certain points. Yeager likes
both of these together, simply
because they do more together than
separately.
"Actually, accupressure and
massage go together very well,"
Yeager said. "I feel that a lot of
times, ju^t plain accupressure
doesn't do the same as both of
them combined together."
Yeager is aware that he's not
the only licensed massage thera
pist in town. He acknowledges
that there are more than a few.
"There are a lot of them in town,
but they don't do the work I do
and I don't do what they do,"
Yeager said.
Yeager specializes in chronic
pain and said that some of his
colleagues specialize in circulation
and muscle disorder. Different
massage therapists practice dif
ferent strokes and pressures, Yea
‘ger said.
"A lot of it depends on what's
wrong with you as to what kind of
treatment you need," he said.
"I have a way of kind of putting
my own thing together," Yeager
said. "I've taken a lot of seminars,
and I take the best (technique) from
each one."
While Yeager said he makes a
good living as a massage thera
pist, he said that not all doctors
recommend or accept massage
therapy as a legitimate practice.
"I trunk they (doctors) think that
a pill is supposed to do every
thing, and it just doesn't quite work
....■ ' ".i."™1
that way," Yeager said. "We're
iust like the chiropractor used to
be a few years ago, and we're going
through the same stages."
The bottom line between doc
tors and massage therapists is that
they just do different things, he
said.
"I would say if you have a bro
ken bone, go to a doctor to get it
set. Because that is important mere,
too," Yeager said. "But to get more
mobility and get the muscles to
working right, massage and accu
pressure will make them respond
to healing faster."
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Reflexology reflects pain
By Robert Richardson
Senior Reporter
Bill Yeager doesn't care if your
feet smell. If he thinks it will help
ease the pain, he'll rub them for a
mere fee of $25 an hour.
Yeager is a reflexologist and a
massage therapist. He got into the
business about 10 years ago. Be
fore his career as a therapist started,
Yeager worked on the farm on
which he was born and raised.
Later, he worked as a blacksmith
and a locksmith.
He then decided to take a corre
spondence course in massage ther
apy from a school in New York.
He started learning about the
business even earlier oecause he
was sickly as a child. Yeager said
that during the time he was 10 to
12 years oia, he was in bed more
than he was out of it.
"When I got called up by the
army, I couldn't even get out of
bed to take the physical," Yeager
said.
Then, about 10 years ago, Yea
ger started working with reflexol
ogy
"Reflexology is points in the
foot, and it reflects to all parts of
the body. That's the reason they
call it reflexology," Yeager said.
Yeager uses reflexology along
with his other methods of mas
sage and accupressure. Pressing
certain parts of the foot helps him
to determine what parts of the
body have a problem or from where
the real source of pain comes.
"I use it mainly to find the cen
ter where the problems are,"
Yeager said. "You cannot diag
nose by it because you don't know
exactly what's going on."
When he finds the source of the
pain, he said he uses massage and
accupressure to draw energy to
that spot, usually eliminating some
of the pain.
Yeager almost got tears in his
eyes while he tola the story of a
young boy that came into nis of
fice with a brace. The boy couldn't
walk very well, so Yeager told his
wife that he was going to help the
bov to walk.
Ide worked on the boy every
night for about a year and said
that now the boy plays football,
baseball and basketball, just like
the other kids.
"It's a real satisfaction when
somebody limps in and walks out
feeling halfway decent."
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