Hello everyone, love what you've done with the place. The Feng Shui is great!

I have a new client that has Aids. He is habitually very tense with lots of
control issues and chronic discomforts/injuries/neuropathies etc... He would
benefit both from Deep Tissue Massage & SI and I would like to continue working
with him. However, my wife has raised the concern of safety and transmitability
and it worries her a little. My instinctive reply was Universal Safety
Precautions should protect me but after thinking about it more, I starting to
think that USP are almost impossible to achieve and the risk here is a little
greater than a cold. As far as I understand it HIV/AIDS is transmittable via
blood of the carrier coming in contact with an open wound or semi-permeable
barrier on a non-carrier. Clients often have little pimples or things of that
sort which occasionally open during a treatment. Is that enough? My hands get
dry easily due to constant washing and my cuticles occasionally crack. It
doesn't seem like they crack to the flesh often but sometimes they
do and I don't always notice and I'm not sure I can always tell. Does this
pose a risk? Have any of you work with HIV+/AIDS clients and what has been your
approach? Do you always wear gloves? I've never tried doing the
non-inter-oral/nasal work with gloves. How do gloves affect it? Thanks. Eli



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Eli Therapeutic Massage
Affordable Massage Therapy
and Structural Integration
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BostonMassage@... (617) 776-9494
www.EliThompson.com

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