Troy LavigneVerified

Troy Lavigne has been a Licensed Massage Therapist since 2004 and a Certified KinesioTaping Instructor since 2012, teaching internationally since 2015 and now serving as Head Mentor–International for the KinesioTaping Association's global instructor network. In 2025, he became founding President of the Boulder School of Massage Therapy, leading academic vision, faculty development, and curriculum design for the nonprofit school. From 2016–2023 he served as Director of Education for the Colorado Chapter of AMTA, building continuing education programming and instructor development for the state's massage therapy community, and he remains active on the CO-AMTA Board today. He is the author of Pain! The Other 4-Letter Word, a neuroscience guide to understanding chronic pain and retraining the nervous system, and has built his teaching around that same neuroscience-grounded framework for manual therapy education — delivered through workshops, an international podcast, and online courses at hospitals, universities, and colleges worldwide. He is a published author in AMTA's Massage Therapy Journal (2025) and a peer reviewer for the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork.