Lauriann Greene, CEAS

Lauriann has been a leading writer, speaker and researcher on injury prevention for manual therapists since 1995. She studied at Brown University, Harvard University and the Mannes College of Music before graduating with honors in 1993 from Seattle Massage School. As a result of extensive research on occupational musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and her own experience with work-related injury, Lauriann developed the Save Your Hands!® Injury Prevention Workshops for massage therapists, which she presented to hundreds of students and professionals across the United States and Canada. In 1995, she wrote the 1st Edition of Save Your Hands!, the first comprehensive book on injury prevention ever published for manual therapists.

Since that time, Lauriann has written numerous articles for major publications including Massage Therapy Journal, Massage Magazine, Massage & Bodywork, and Positive Health. She also wrote a regular column in Massage Magazine called "Helping the Healers." In 2005, Lauriann joined forces with professional ergonomist and massage therapist Richard W. Goggins on a survey that produced the first reliable statistics on the prevalence of injury among massage therapists and bodyworkers, the results of which were publish in 2006 in Massage & Bodywork. Lauriann is now a Certified Ergonomics Assessment Specialist, and continues to collaborate with Richard to offer a range of injury prevention and ergonomics consulting and educational services to manual therapists.

Lauriann and Richard are frequently featured in spa and manual therapy magazines like PULSE, Spa Management Journal and Massage & Bodywork.  They speak regularly at massage and spa conferences, and their webinars appear on Universal Companies' Advance With Education web site.  They are also contributors to the book Foundations of Massage 3rd Edition (Elsevier).

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Richard W. Goggins, MS, CPE, LMP

Rick is Board Certified as a Professional Ergonomist, and is a Licensed Massage Practitioner in Washington State. He has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Columbia University, and a master’s degree in Human Factors/Ergonomics from the University of Southern California (USC). During and following his time at USC, Rick worked for Hughes Space and Communications in El Segundo, Calif., helping them to establish their ergonomics program. From there, he moved north to work for the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, where he is now the Senior Ergonomist with their Division of Occupational Safety and Health.

Through his work at Labor and Industries, Rick has helped employers in a wide variety of industries to prevent injuries among their employees. He is frequently asked to present talks and workshops on ergonomics at conferences around the country, and he has published a number of articles on the subject in publications including Professional Safety, Journal of Safety Research, and Massage and Bodywork. He is a past president of the Puget Sound Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and continues to work with this group on a project to educate schoolchildren on computer ergonomics

Rick first became interested in massage after receiving excellent treatment from several different massage therapists. He received his massage training at Alexandar’s School of Natural Therapeutics in Tacoma, Wash., an experience that he still counts as one of his favorites. He is a professional member of the American Massage Therapy Association. Rick has combined his in-depth knowledge of injury prevention, ergonomics and manual treatment work in his collaboration with Lauriann Greene on the injury survey among massage therapists, and on this second edition of Save Your Hands!

Lauriann and Richard are frequently featured in spa and manual therapy magazines like PULSE, Spa Management Journal and Massage & Bodywork.  They speak regularly at massage and spa conferences, and their webinars appear on Universal Companies' "Advance With Education" web site.  They are also contributors to the book Foundations of Massage 3rd Edition (Elsevier). 

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Contributor to the 2nd Edition: Janet M. Peterson, PT, DPT

Janet has been performing injury prevention services for twenty years; she has had her own practice in ergonomics consulting since 1998 in Seattle, Washington. Janet earned her master’s degree in physical therapy from Stanford University and her doctorate in physical therapy through Temple University. She was on the Board of Directors for the American Physical Therapy Association and is a past president of the Physical Therapy Association of Washington, receiving the 2003 “Physical Therapist of the Year Award”. She is a member of the Puget Sound Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (PSHFES) and the Pacific Northwest Ergonomics Roundtable.