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Meaning and Challenges in the Practice of Multiple Therapeutic Massage Modalities: A Combined ...
By: VitalityLink Finder    Thursday, Mar 15, 2012
Conditions: back pain, shoulder pain, headaches
Table 5 Interview participant characteristics, including reported therapies trained in Gender F = 15; M = 4 Work setting (n, not exclusive) Shared clinic (4), private clinic (6), home clinic (4), salon (1), fitness club (1), spa (4), chiropractic clinic (2), medical clinic (1), outcalls (1) Years in practice 3 to > 30 years Number of TMB therapies trained in (including TMB course components) Mean 8, range 1 - 16 Non-massage therapists 2; a third was trained in but did not practice massage therapy Minimum number of introductory courses to therapies* Mean 2, range 0 - 5 Number who also ...Read More
Meaning and Challenges in the Practice of Multiple Therapeutic Massage Modalities: A Combined ...
By: VitalityLink Finder    Thursday, Mar 15, 2012
Conditions: back pain, shoulder pain, headaches
Table 4 Additional TMB components included in more than 10% of TMB training programs TMB Training Component % of TMB Trainings Including the Component Trigger point therapy* 38.6 Swedish/spa massage* 35.5 maternal/pregnancy massage 31.4 hydrotherapy* 28.5 chair massage 28.3 sports massage 26.3 manual lymph drainage 23.8 myofascial release 23.7 PNF 22.1 TMJ therapy 20.7 aromatherapy* 11.9 acupressure 11.3 *expected as part of a massage therapy training program, based on a review of massage therapy schools and common competency documents Porcino et al. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine  ...Read More
Meaning and Challenges in the Practice of Multiple Therapeutic Massage Modalities: A Combined ...
By: VitalityLink Finder    Thursday, Mar 15, 2012
Conditions: back pain, shoulder pain, headaches
Table 3 TMBs identified during the project practiced by 10% or more of respondents massage therapy (Western) 89.40% TMJ therapy (temporomandibular joint therapy) 35.7 Swedish/spa massage 63.2 hot/cold stones massage 30.1 trigger point therapy 58.4 Craniosacral™ 27.3 maternal/pregnancy massage 52.7 or cranial sacral therapy sports massage 45.9 aromatherapy 22.1 chair massage 45.4 acupressure 21.9 myofascial release 44.5 geriatric massage 15.5 lymphatic drainage massage or manual lymph drainage 43.2 pædiatric massage 15.0 shiatsu 12.3 hydrotherapy 43.1 Neuromuscular Technique 12.0 ...Read More
Meaning and Challenges in the Practice of Multiple Therapeutic Massage Modalities: A Combined ...
By: VitalityLink Finder    Thursday, Mar 15, 2012
Conditions: back pain, shoulder pain, headaches
Table 2 Demographic characteristics, and comparison to past surveys Question Category This Survey NHPC [6] CMTO [5] AMTA [15] X2 (df), significance Practitioner gender (%) Male 8.3 14.1 17 15 3.562 (3), p < 0.313 Female 91.7 85.9 83 85 Years in practice (mean years) 8.3 (s.d. 6.2) (range: 0 to 37 yrs) NP* 5.5 7 0.566 (2), p = 0.753 Mean Hours Worked with client (mean hours) 20.5 (sd: 11.6, range 2 to 80) 18.2 18.9 20 0.168 (3) p = 0.983 Top three work settings: Total/Primary** (%) Private clinic 44.0/32.2 41.8/NP* 46/NP* NC* 3.59(4), p = 0.464 Home clinic 34.3/29.7 42.2/NP* 25/NP* NC* ...Read More
Meaning and Challenges in the Practice of Multiple Therapeutic Massage Modalities: A Combined ...
By: VitalityLink Finder    Thursday, Mar 15, 2012
Conditions: back pain, shoulder pain, headaches
Table 1 Interview Guide (final version) 1. Could you briefly describe the manual therapy trainings that you have taken? We'll get to the details of them later. 2. I'd like to get a little more depth on each of those now. Can we start with the first training you did. (prompt for reasons for that training, what it included, how long, practicum/cases studies and clinic time. Importance in practice now.) 3. What about the next trainings you took? (prompt for reasons on why chosen, etc. Importance in practice now.) 4. Did practice setting influence your choice of trainings? 5. Did the initial ...Read More
Meaning and Challenges in the Practice of Multiple Therapeutic Massage Modalities: A Combined ...
By: VitalityLink Finder    Thursday, Mar 15, 2012
Conditions: back pain, shoulder pain, headaches
Figure 1. Total number of therapies in which a practitioner has trained. Porcino et al. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011 11:75 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-11-75 Read the first part of the study Read the second part of the study Read the third part of the study Read practice of multiple therapeutic massage modalities study overview by VitalityLink.comRead More
Meaning and Challenges in the Practice of Multiple Therapeutic Massage Modalities: A Combined ...
By: VitalityLink Finder    Tuesday, Mar 13, 2012
Conditions: back pain, shoulder pain, headaches
Antony J Porcino(1), Heather S Boon(2), Stacey A Page(3) and Marja J Verhoef(1) BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011, 11:75 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-11-75 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/11/75 Received:7 June 2011Accepted:20 September 2011Published:20 September 2011 © 2011 Porcino et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted  ...Read More
Meaning and Challenges in the Practice of Multiple Therapeutic Massage Modalities: A Combined ...
By: VitalityLink Finder    Tuesday, Mar 13, 2012
Conditions: back pain, shoulder pain, headaches
Antony J Porcino(1), Heather S Boon(2), Stacey A Page(3) and Marja J Verhoef(1) BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011, 11:75 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-11-75 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/11/75 Received:7 June 2011Accepted:20 September 2011Published:20 September 2011 © 2011 Porcino et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted  ...Read More
Meaning and Challenges in the Practice of Multiple Therapeutic Massage Modalities: A Combined ...
By: VitalityLink Finder    Tuesday, Mar 13, 2012
Conditions: back pain, shoulder pain, headaches
Antony J Porcino(1), Heather S Boon(2), Stacey A Page(3) and Marja J Verhoef(1) BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011, 11:75 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-11-75 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/11/75 Received:7 June 2011Accepted:20 September 2011Published:20 September 2011 © 2011 Porcino et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted  ...Read More
Meaning and Challenges in the Practice of Multiple Therapeutic Massage Modalities
By: VitalityLink Finder    Tuesday, Mar 13, 2012
Conditions: back pain, shoulder pain, headaches
Antony J Porcino(1), Heather S Boon(2), Stacey A Page(3) and Marja J Verhoef(1) BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011, 11:75 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-11-75 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/11/75 Received:7 June 2011Accepted:20 September 2011Published:20 September 2011 © 2011 Porcino et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted  ...Read More