The Massage Therapist Development Initiative

I think we've all seen changes in the past couple of years with the pandemic and other things going on.

For the both of us, we experienced a significant amount of burnout, so we thought we'd share ou…

Education, education, education.

We constantly promote a better education for Massage Therapists and as those who teach continuing education courses we have a lot of responsibility to keep current wi…

As massage therapists, we often rely on learning new modalities or rely on many of the ones we learned in college as a way to help our patients.

But does it really matter which modality we use? There …

In this episode we discuss some of the advances, changes, and recommendations that have taken place since the biopsychosocial framework was introduced 40 years ago.

This is one of the many things we …

In this episode we discuss the buzzwords circling around our continuing education and how you can interpret and decide whether the course you're taking is evidence based.
 
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In this episode we discuss the updated education requirements from our college in BC. While some take this update to think they don't have to take continuing education anymore, we argue that it is ou…

In this episode we discuss some papers that challenge some of the available pain models of understanding. While there are some good challenges on language, the overall message remains the same; treat…

In this episode we discuss some papers on therapeutic exercise for the neck as well as the low back.

We also look at challenging industry norms and how others get upset by what you're saying.

And as …

On this episode we look at a great paper entitled:  "Challenges for Evidence-Based Physical Therapy: Accessing and Interpreting High-Quality Evidence on Therapy"

This was a great paper as it shows us …

On this episode, we chat about some of the failures we've had in our careers.

It's important to talk about failures because you can't succeed without failing. Also because we all make mistakes in pra…

On this episode we look at a great paper entitled:  "Manual Therapy: Exploiting The Role Of Human Touch."

This was a great paper as it shows us several different things about the benefit of touch. Whi…

On this episode we look at a research paper entitled: Manual therapy and exercise for rotator cuff disease (Review). This paper helps us understand a bit better how we can help people with possible r…

On this episode we look at Tone Police and Language and how this functions within our profession.

We are of the belief that we choose how to react to someone's words and perhaps the way we react isn't…

On this episode we look at "Beliefs Vs. Science" and how this functions within our profession.

We are of the belief that if science refutes or proves your belief wrong, we have a responsibility as he…

On this episode we just basically rant about several things in our industry with our buddy from the UK Tristen Attenborough

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On this episode we look at why it is important for RMT's to learn from RMT's and why we need more Massage Therapists stepping into the education ring. 

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On this episode we look at why it is important to challenge our bias' and identities in massage therapy. 

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On this episode we look at the difference between "Evidence Based Practice" and "Evidence Informed Practice" and how this relates to Massage Therapists.

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