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Your Source for Obtaining and Understanding Massage Therapy Research
This is a thorough site about massage therapy research. Please do not believe you will get through this site in one visit. You will need time to digest many of the concepts of each section. Much of the information is dry, and many of the terms sound like words of a foreign language. But please don't give up. Getting through the concepts of general research will prepare you to understand research about massage and any other alternative health care research you may find. If you are a massage therapist, this site will give you the toolbox to construct an evidence-based practice model into your own massage therapy clinical practice. With an evidence-based practice, you can feel ethically confident that what you tell your clients about how you can help them is based upon evidence, not just philosophy or belief. If you are a member of the public, a massage consumer, or someone just trying to validate the claims your massage therapist has told you, this site will help you distinguish knowledge from opinion or advertisement. Even if you can learn just a few of the concepts on this site, you'll be able to determine if your massage therapist really knows what he or she is talking about, or if they are just trying to sell you a cleverly bottled dose of snake oil. Are you at all interested in Massage Research? Join us at Journal Club Online. Even if you do not care to post, you can read what I have to say!
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