● Kinesiology/applied kinesiology : The study of the principles of mechanics and anatomy related to human body movement, specifically the action of individual muscles or groups of muscles that perform specific movements. Applied kinesiology involves muscle testing to assess a client’s condition. ● Lymph drainage therapy (LDT) : LDT is unique in that healthcare professionals learn how to palpate lymphatic flow. As they develop their skills, they can identify the rhythm, direction, and quality of the lymphatic flow. Advanced practitioners are often able to precisely map the lymphatic flow to identify alternate pathways for drainage. Lymph Drainage Therapy evolved from traditional medicine, Asian medical practices, and manual therapies. ● Medical massage : Performing medical massage requires a firm background in pathology and utilizes specific treatments appropriate to working with disease, pain, and recovery from injury. The therapist may work from AMTA 2016 glossary of research terminology ● Beneficence : An obligation to ensure the well-being of individuals by: (a) doing no harm; and (b) maximizing potential benefits while minimizing possible harm. ● Competency : Mastery or the skills and techniques of the profession that are gained through education and training. A competent learner has acquired a variety of learning goals including an attainment of self- confidence, or the sense of being able to cope. This attainment of self-confidence denotes an emotional or affective component of competency. ● Confidentiality : This provision in a research study means that, although the researcher potentially or actually can associate a research subject’s identity with information received from that individual, assurances are given that such associations of identity and information will be kept strictly secret, private, and undisclosed. ● Ethics : One of two subdivisions of the branch of philosophy known as Axiology . Whereas Axiology speaks to the issue of values in general, ethics is the subdivision that addresses values in the context of human behavior. The second subdivision of axiology is that of aesthetics and concerns itself with values in the context of the appreciation of beauty. ● Informed consent : Informed consent by research subjects is a moral requirement derived primarily from the ethical principle of respect for persons. Though somewhat debated, consensus does exist in that informed consent must encompass three critical elements as the researcher attempts to ensure that prospective subjects have all of the required information necessary to make a rational decision regarding their participation in a study. These three elements involve: (a) the extent and nature of study-related information provided to potential research subjects; (b) the comprehensibility of the study-related information; and (c) the voluntary nature of the consent if and when it is forthcoming. ● Neuromuscular therapy : The program of soft tissue manipulation, balancing the body’s central nervous system with the musculoskeletal system. It is based on neurological laws that explain how the central nervous system initiates and maintains pain. The outcome of
a physician’s prescription or as an adjunct healer in a hospital or physical therapy setting. ● Orthopedic massage : Combining some elements of sports and medical massage, orthopedic massage integrates ten modalities to treat soft-tissue pain and injury. Emphasis is placed on understanding both the injury and its rehabilitation criteria. The three basic elements adhered to, despite the technical diversity in treatment, are assessment, matching treatment to the injury, and treatment adaptability. ● Somatic therapy : Meaning of the body, and often used to denote a body/mind or whole-body approach, as distinguished from a physiology-only perspective. ● Tapotement : A specific technique used in Swedish massage. It is a rhythmic percussion, most frequently administered with the edge of the hand, a cupped hand, or the tips of the fingers (Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals, 2015). the therapy is to help relieve pain and dysfunction by alleviating the underlying cause. ● Massage therapy : A generic term that denotes both (a) the promotion of health and well-being by way of soft tissue manipulation and movement of the body, and (b) a health care profession engaged in by massage practitioners. Specialties in the massage therapy profession are defined by virtue of those client populations served, health conditions treated, and intervention techniques used. ● Massage Therapy Research Database (MTRD) : This database, maintained by the Massage Therapy Foundation, represents the only consolidated, comprehensive listing of bibliographic citations of the scientific research literature on therapeutic massage and bodywork. It currently contains more than 4000 entries and serves as a reference source to help professionals and the public locate articles and other relevant documents. ● Research : At its most basic level, research is a process that explores one or more areas of interest (called factors or variables ) by analyzing numerical and/or verbal data so as to advance our understanding. More specifically, research is an activity that allows one to accomplish one or more of the following tasks: (a) to characterize a variable of interest by an appeal to numerical and/ or verbal data, (b) to investigate a possible relationship between two or more variables, and (c) to integrate or synthesize data from already published sources concerning one or more variables of interest. ● Risks/benefits assessment : The assessment of risks and benefits is the moral requirement derived primarily from the ethical principle of beneficence. This assessment should be viewed not only as a responsibility but also as an opportunity for the researcher, a review committee, and a prospective research subject. For all three parties
involved, it allows for the systematic gathering of comprehensive information about the research being proposed, with each party to the process having a unique set of concerns regarding the study’s potential risks and benefits (AMTA, 2016c). National Center for Complementary, and Integrated Health: National Institute of Health glossary ● Alternative medicine : A non-mainstream practice used in place of conventional healthcare.
The NIH views massage, chiropractic and osteopathic manipulation in this category. ● Integrated healthcare : Conventional and complementary approaches brought together in a coordinated way.
● Complementary healthcare : A non-mainstream practice used together with conventional medicine.
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