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 our stories as we're sure we aren't alone in the experience.

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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 with new evidence and research.

And so do our associations. Our associations wield some great power in what can and is offered to their perspective memberships for continuing education. But are they all handling their responsibility well? If not, their members should demand better.  

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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 are so many other factors that contribute to better outcomes when people come to see us, the modality we use while the person receives treatment matters less than we've been lead to believe.

Let's start to worry less about learning new ways to touch people and start focusing on what we can do to get them back to doing the activities that are important to them.

This is one of the things we teach in our upcoming courses in October. If you'd like to learn how to communicate better and incorporate more movement into your treatments you can join us by clicking the link below. 

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Referenced paper: Wu Z, Wang Y, Ye X, Chen Z, Zhou R, Ye Z, Huang J, Zhu Y, Chen G, Xu X. Myofascial release for chronic low back pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in medicine. 2021 Jul 28;8:69798. 

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 discuss in our upcoming courses along with therapeutic movement and rehab. These courses can be taken in person, or online so please click the link below and join us in October!

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Referenced paper: 

Nicholas, Michael K.. The biopsychosocial model of pain 40 years on: time for a reappraisal?. PAIN: April 19, 2022 - Volume - Issue - 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002654
doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002654 

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 our responsibility as healthcare professionals to do so. 

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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 the person in front of you. 

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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.

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You ever have one of those moments where you get faced with a piece of research that challenges, something that you've been saying for a long time?

We're going to talk about that today. Because I've been long saying how going for a walk is one of the best things you can do for low back pain. And while it's can still be an effective thing, we've come apart come upon some research that tells us otherwise. So we'll get into that today. But I think before we get into that one, we've got one paper that we're going to look at, it's talking about the superior and middle cluneal nerve entrapment as a cause of low back pain. So we had a quick little discussion about this before we came on. And I think some of the points that you were making right away about the anatomy and things like that are probably a good place to start.

Thank you. We hope you enjoy our podcast. These kinds of topics are what we are all about. If you'd like to learn more, go to our websites, themtdc.com or ericpurves.com. If you know of any other therapists that could benefit from this, please tell them to subscribe.

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 several different challenges to incorporating research into practice, what the best research papers are, and why it's important to use them. While it does highlight some of the challenges, we as healthcare professionals should look at this not as a challenge but rather an opportunity we should face head on. 

Here is a link to the paper: 

https://academic.oup.com/ptj/article/84/7/644/2857555

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