It seems that I have the opportunity to enter into more corporate massages. Some of them will be repetitive, yet others may only be on an once-off basis.

What is the protocol for corporate massages regarding record keeping without it becoming a nightmare?

-- Beate Karbstein (KARBI1@BIGPOND.COM), May 27, 2002

Answers

Hello Beate

I can understand your problem but you still need a minimum of record keeping. I think cards would be better than paper (smaller and harder to crush). You will probably only need to keep the name, address, job description contraindications and recommendations.

Just thinking laterally - what about seeing if you can keep the cards in a safe,locked place at the company where you are working. Alternately can you get them to make a list of the people who will be massaged on a particular day and email/fax/phone it to you so you take the correct cards and a few new ones.

Diana

-- Diana Glazer (dglazer@zip.com.au), June 06, 2002.

I also had to answer this question when I was doing corporate massage and I decided on the following: I shortened my usual client history and brought it down to A5 size which I then kept in separate folder for each different company - this way I had a record of all the clients. Also, as I was paid by the company rather than the individuals, I did not put personal address details on the client history, I simply marked them as being employees of that particular company. As I was performing mostly relaxation massage (rather than remedial) in this situation, I was able to keep fairly simple notes on each person - only noting anything unusual rather than usual!

-- Melanie Elsey (melanie.elsey@bigpond.com), June 24, 2002.