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Evidence based massage therapy group

This community fosters healthy exchange of knowledge and information and encourages the practice of evidence-based massage therapy based on credible research. Persons interested in higher education in this area might also benefit from being a member.

Website: http://mtabc.wordpress.com/
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Members: 161
Latest Activity: 14 hours ago

Articles and other resources

Sicily statement on evidence-based practice - click here for full text

Introduction to evidence-based complementary medicine


Teaching first-year medical students to apply evidence-based practices to patient care.
This is a great article on implementation - click here for PDF

How to establish and encourage EBP - slide show

Giving the best to massage therapy patients - Evidence based massage therapy practice

Changing Times - Massage Therapy in primary health care

Evidence-Based Indications for Therapeutic Massage -abstract

Working in partnership to develop evidence-based practice within the massage profession - abstract

Discussion Forum

Serge Rivest

Is muscle tension the enemy? 2 Replies

Hi All,I'd like to start a discussion about muscle tension. As a massage therapist, it often seems like the aim is to seek soft tissue tension and eliminate it. I would like to challenge this view an…

Started by Serge Rivest. Last reply by Jason Erickson Jul 23.

Bodhi Haraldsson

Obstacles 17 Replies

What do you think is the major obstacle preventing massage therapy from becoming evidence based?

Started by Bodhi Haraldsson. Last reply by Jason Erickson Jul 23.

Laura Allen

I Need Help w/a Difficult Case 4 Replies

There are so many great minds on here, please assist if you can. I just started working on a 5 year old yesterday who was diagnosed at birth w/macrocephaly, low muscle tone, and no deep tendon refle…

Started by Laura Allen. Last reply by Laura Allen Dec. 5, 2009.

Bodhi Haraldsson

EBP resources and articles 2 Replies

Please post your material here.

Started by Bodhi Haraldsson. Last reply by Jan Schwartz Jul. 23, 2009.

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Z. Faith Darby 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.
Carl W. Brown 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.
Rene Roberto 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.
Robin Byler Thomas Comment by Robin Byler Thomas on August 15, 2009 at 9:51am
By a quick count, women make up 40% of this forum.
Jan Schwartz 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.
Noel Norwick 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
Rene Roberto 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?
Noel Norwick 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/
Christopher A. Moyer 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
Rene Roberto 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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Jan Schwartz Whitney Lowe Bodhi Haraldsson Laura Allen Jason Erickson Cliff Korn Keith Eric Grant Carl W. Brown Ben Dennis Gibbons Rene Roberto Kim Goral Bert Davich Rajam K Roose Marla Barrett Amanda Cizek Serge Rivest Erik Dalton Catherine Allis Chip Hines Christopher A. Moyer Nate Ewert Robin Byler Thomas Ilse Morero Geoffrey Bishop Jenny Good I. Paul Dunsdon Terra Rosa James McGettigan Lisa Curran Parenteau
 
 
 

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