Health care providers recommending massage as a viable form of treatment for the conditions discussed above Health care providers and doctors are more commonly viewing massage therapy as a legitimate option to address health concerns. Of consumers who discussed massage therapy with their doctors: ● 12 percent were referred to a massage therapist by their doctor. ● 15 percent were told by their doctor that a massage might benefit them. ● 56 percent of respondents said their physician has recommended they get a massage, up from 54 percent last year (AMTA, 2016b).
● 50 percent of people have received a massage for one or more of the following reasons: soreness, stiffness or spasms, to relieve or manage stress, for prevention or to improve quality of life, injury recovery or rehabilitation, to keep fit or healthy, maintain wellness, pregnancy/ prenatal, or to control headaches or migraines (AMTA, 2016b). Consumers are discussing specific medical conditions with their doctors ● 37 percent of respondents discussed pain relief or pain management with their doctor. ● 26 percent discussed injury recovery or rehabilitation with their doctor. ● 16 percent discussed soreness, stiffness, and spasms with their doctor (AMTA, 2016b).
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
The major organizations that guide the massage therapy and bodywork professions have their own specific glossaries that reflect the unique practice of their members, and the NCBTMB glossary of terms ● Acceptable accounting procedures : Rules, conventions, standards, and procedures that are widely accepted among financial accountants. ● Boundary : A boundary is a limit that separates one person from another. Its function is to protect the integrity of each person. ● Competency : Study and development of a particular professional knowledge base, and skills associated with and applied in practice within that knowledge base. ● Counter-transference : A practitioner’s unresolved feelings and issues that are unconsciously transferred to the client. ● Dignity : The quality or state of being worthy, honored, or esteemed. ● Dual relationships : An alliance in addition to the client/ therapist relationship, such as social, familial, business or any other relationship that is outside the therapeutic relationship. ● Genitalia, female : Labia major, labia minor, clitoris and vaginal orifice. ● Genitalia, male : Testes, penis and scrotum. ● Impugn : To assail by words or arguments, oppose or attack as false. ● Integrity : Honesty. Firm adherence to a code of values. ● Multidimensional relationships : Overlapping relationships, in which the therapist and client share an alliance, in addition to the therapeutic relationship. ● Progress notes : Notes written by a practitioner certified by NCBTMB, and kept in a separate client file that indicates the date of the session, areas of complaint as The 2016 AMBP glossary of terms This glossary is very extensive, but additional key terms used in this course are as follows: ● Craniosacral therapy : Craniosacral therapy is a gentle, noninvasive method of evaluating and enhancing the function of a physiological body arrangement called the craniosacral system , which consists of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord. It extends from the bones of the skull, face, and mouth, which make up the cranium, down to the sacrum or tailbone. ● Healing touch : Healing Touch is an energy-based therapeutic approach to healing. Healing Touch uses touch to influence the energy system, thus affecting physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health, as well as healing. The goal of Healing Touch is to restore
goals, ethics, and standards of the association. These often overlap, but the following terms that relate to this course are included.
stated by client, and observations made and actions taken by the practitioner. ● Sexual activity : Any verbal and/or nonverbal behavior for the purpose of soliciting, receiving, or giving sexual gratification. ● Sexual harassment : Sexual harassment consists of unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when: (1) submission to such conduct is made, either explicitly or implicitly, a term or condition of an individual’s employment; (2) submission to, or rejection of, such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individuals; or (3) such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment. ● Scope of practice : The minimum standards necessary for safe and effective practice and the parameters of practice determined by a certificant’s professional training and education, and, when applicable, regulatory bodies. ● Therapeutic breast massage : Manipulation of the non- muscular soft tissue structure of the breast, up to and including the areola and nipple. ● Transference : The displacement or transfer of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors originally related to a significant person, such as a parent, onto someone else, such as a massage therapist, or doctor, psychotherapist, teacher, or spiritual advisor (NCBTMB, 2016b). harmony and balance in the energy system to help the person to self-heal. The quality and impact of the healing is influenced by the relationship between the giver and receiver. ● Hydrotherapy : Although ancient Greece and Rome had beliefs that water had healing properties, it was the Romans to first integrate hydrotherapy into their social life, building temples and baths near natural springs. Various hydrotherapy massage techniques exist and are generally utilized by massage/bodywork practitioners, physical therapists, physicians, and spa technicians. These techniques include underwater massage, herbal baths, thalassotherapy, Kneipp therapy, Vichy treatments, Scotch hoses, and Swiss showers.
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