Meet Author Lauriann Greene

Lauriann knows firsthand what it’s like when the work you love takes a toll on your body. While training to become a massage therapist, she experienced an injury that changed the course of her career—and sparked a lifelong commitment to helping manual therapists stay healthy, comfortable, confident, and working in the profession they love.

She wrote the first edition of Save Your Hands! to fill a need she had experienced herself: practical, accessible guidance for preventing the injuries that can shorten a massage therapist’s career. It became an instant best-seller.

In 2006, Lauriann teamed up with Ergonomist/LMT Rick Goggins and worked with the ABMP to create a study that produced the first reliable statistics on work-related injury among American massage therapists and bodyworkers. Rick also contributed important content on ergonomics for manual therapists for the Second Edition of Save Your Hands! The two also wrote a chapter for Fundamentals of Massage, a foundational and popular Australian textbook. At that time, Lauriann studied to receive formal ergonomics certification.

Through the years, Lauriann has taught injury-prevention workshops throughout North America, written articles for publications like Massage Therapy Journal and Massage and Bodywork, ISPA PULSE, American Spa Online, Spa Directors' Diaries and others. Lauriann has presented educational webinars, been a guest on top industry podcasts, and spoken at professional association conferences like AMTA, ABMP, ISPA, IECSC, and World Massage Conference.

Through her workshops, teaching, Q&A sessions, observation and other interactions with thousands of practitioners, Lauriann has gained a deep understanding of the realities of daily hands-on work—from nagging aches and repetitive strain to the physical and mental stress that can eventually lead to burnout. These experiences, together with years of research and writing, have shaped the practical approach at the heart of Save Your Hands!. Lauriann understands that knowing what should be done is only part of the challenge. The question is how to make healthier ways of working realistic and sustainable in the middle of a busy day with real clients. The Third Edition answers this question.

Published in 2025, the revised and updated Save Your Hands! Third Edition reflects more than two decades of work devoted to the health and safety of massage and manual therapists. Save Your Hands! has become a valued resource in massage schools and related professional programs and has received acclaim from respected educators and clinicians in massage and other disciplines.

Today, using her Save Your Hands!™ Method, Lauriann helps spas, schools, and clinics develop programs that support practitioner health and safety. At the heart of her work is a simple belief: a career in manual therapy should not require sacrificing your own health to care for others.

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