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The Massage Therapist Development Initiative

The Massage Therapist Development Initiative

By: Jamie
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The Massage Therapist Development Initiative is a platform for Massage Therapists and other Manual Therapists to learn more about research and becoming a more evidence-based practitioner. This is an opportunity to not only create a positive change in our profession but also for other therapists to create better outcomes in their practice and with their patients.© 2024 The Massage Therapist Development Initiative Alternative & Complementary Medicine Hygiene & Healthy Living
Episodes
  • Episode #29 Dealing With Burnout
    Mar 31 2023

    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.

    And as always, check out our websites.

    www.themtdc.com
    www.ericpurves.com 

    and our emails: 

    jamie@themtdc.com
    hello@ericpurves.com

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    40 mins
  • Episode #28 With Great Educational Power, Comes Great Educational Responsibility
    Sep 28 2022

    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.  

    REGISTER HERE

    And as always, check out our websites.

    www.themtdc.com
    www.ericpurves.com 

    and our emails: 

    jamie@themtdc.com
    hello@ericpurves.com

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    48 mins
  • Episode #27 Myofascial Release And CLB, What Does The Evidence Say?
    Aug 23 2022

    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. 

    REGISTER HERE

    And as always, check out our websites.

    www.themtdc.com
    www.ericpurves.com 

    and our emails: 

    jamie@themtdc.com
    hello@ericpurves.com

    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. 

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    44 mins
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