Evidence based massage therapy group

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Comment by Z. Faith Darby on May 15, 2010 at 6:59pm

Thank you so much for creating this group. This is a great resource to stay current with massage related research and grant opportunities.

Comment by Carl W. Brown on August 16, 2009 at 10:32am

Actually I think that much of the intuitive difference is our cultural training. When I was born I was ambidextrous but not now. I feel that most of my learning in this business has been to relearn to use the right side of my brain. I have natural empathic abilities that I suppressed for a totally left-brained career. But even though I have this uncanny ability to feel things there are interpersonal clues that I miss all the time. I feel that it is largely due to my upbringing. Likewise I think women have been right brain focused by our society but fortunately I see that changing but men are still being stereotyped and are behind in attaining sexual equality.
I think the “prove it” attitude that is the bases of EBT is probably just as common among the sexes.

Comment by Rene Roberto on August 15, 2009 at 7:48pm

Yes, indeed, women are well represented here as well, which is good to keep the balance. Sorry, I had not seen the previous pages because I just joined.

Comment by Robin Byler Thomas on August 15, 2009 at 9:51am

By a quick count, women make up 40% of this forum.

Comment by Jan Schwartz on August 15, 2009 at 9:43am

Go back a couple of pages Rene--women have commented and contributed.
And will continue to do so, here and elsewhere, with regard to EBP and research.

Comment by Noel Norwick on August 15, 2009 at 9:26am

Rene: Re making sales pitches to corporations, you might find it helpful to watch the hour ten minutes Columbia profession's presentation regarding how to best influence others: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tyUQb9IUQw

Comment by Rene Roberto on August 14, 2009 at 9:02pm

Thanks again Chris. I found the articles you mentions very useful and to the point. That was the kind of solid study I have been after.

Noel, thanks for the pubmed nih site hint. The NIH is a terrific resource for EB CAM studies.

I find it interesting that mostly guys are interested in EB studies. Is that because our female colleagues prefer the more intuitive path, rather? I have nothing against the use of intuition, and try to use it whenever it manifests itself. But I can not make a sales pitch to a corporation based on it, right?

Comment by Noel Norwick on August 13, 2009 at 12:29pm

Christopher: Thanks for letting us know about Google's Beta testing of the "Scholar" search option. While articles may be older, as someone who doesn't have an academic account, I get free access to articles via: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

Comment by Christopher A. Moyer on August 13, 2009 at 11:21am

Rene -

To the best of my knowledge, you probably won't find any chair massage studies in the major medical journals, yet.

In addition to the citations Bodhi gave you, I seem to recall another study of chair massage for nurses at their workplace - let me see if I can find it....

Hmm, I didn't see the one I was looking for, but I did find a few others! Here:

http://www.ajan.com.au/Vol23/Vol23.4-4.pdf

Also:

Chair massage for carers in an acute cancer hospital
European Journal of Oncology Nursing, Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 167-179
P.Mackereth, P.Sylt, A.Weinberg, G.Campbell

and

The effect of chair massage on stress perception of hospital bedside nurses
Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 335-342
M. Brennan, R. DeBate

It used to be hard for people not currently at university to search for such articles, but no longer. Go to google.com, and at the top, from the "more" menu, select "Scholar". Then type in what you want, such as workplace chair massage.

One more suggestion - these papers are not chair-massage specific, but these may also be applicable for your purposes. I have co-authored two different review articles that attempt to summarize a range of massage therapy effects. You can view them here:

http://www.anatomyfacts.com/Research/Massage%20Journal%20Club/January07/Moyer.pdf

and

http://ecam.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/4/1/23

You will need Adobe Reader (a free program you might already have) to view those files.

-CM

Comment by Rene Roberto on August 13, 2009 at 6:00am

Thank you for your responses Chris and Bodhi.
Chris: I am looking for all studies that show improvement in any of the areas you mentioned, stress, absenteism, pain relief, productivity etc...I intend to market my services to offices in my area, but want to do it "evidence based".

Bodhi, your articles hit the right spot (ACHI like they say in China!). I will look for them. Thanks a lot! Do you know of anything published in the more mainline medical journals that you know of? Like Lancet, JAMA, New England J. M. etc..?
Rene.

Rene.

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