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Comment by Lauriann Greene, CEAS on October 5, 2010 at 6:02pm

Teach Self-Care and Earn Additional Income as a
Certified Injury Prevention Instructor (CIPI)

Hi all - We're going to be holding the workshop portion of our Certified Injury Prevention Instructor (CIPI) program in your area, at Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa (Corona, CA), Nov. 13-14, 2010. The affordable CIPI training will give you the knowledge and skills to teach our famous Save Your Hands!® Workshops in your region, at spas, schools, CE programs, conferences, etc. Create a new revenue stream and help your fellow MTs learn proven self-care and injury prevention techniques.

In these tough times, this is a great new way to earn additional income in the massage field and give your own body a break. You can do your workshops in addition to your massage work, as much or as little as you like. Earning potential is nearly unlimited, as you will sell not only space at your workshops, but also the Save Your Hands! books, CE courses and products.

You still have time to compete the online courses necessary before the live workshop, but don't delay. Contact us now for more information. Visit:
http://www.saveyourhands.com/certified-injury-prevention-instructor or call us at 877-424-0994, email syhcourses@saveyourhands.com.

Looking forward to meeting you in Corona this November!

Lauriann Greene, CEAS
co-author, Save Your Hands! 2nd Edition
www.saveyourhands.com

Comment by Keith Eric Grant on August 18, 2010 at 3:53pm

CAMTC is urgently requesting letters to CA State Senators to kill AB 1822. The details and background are in a blog post I put up a bit earlier today.

Comment by Boris Prilutsky on August 1, 2010 at 11:21am

Dear colleagues,

I am happy to invite you to join my group:” Medical and Sports Massage” including FREE Medical and Sports massage lessons. Not alot of practitioners in the US are familiar with Russian Medical and Sports massage as it was proposed by a Russian physician professor of medicine Anatoly Sherback . I'm happy to offer you information about this methodology as well as some additional information about me. I hope that our friendship will be pleasant and mutual beneficial. I believe in sharing knowledge. In such a case you will be able to learn from me as well as I can learn from you . If after reading information about medical and sports massage, or viewing lessons you will have any question I'm encouraging you to make comments or initiate discussion topic . In such a case my replies will be available for many to read, as well as your replies. Looking forward for great relationship.

Best wishes.
Boris

Comment by M. Audrey Pino on June 24, 2010 at 10:49pm

I l(((love))) this group. Thank You!

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Comment by The Rev on May 27, 2010 at 7:47pm

Actually Noel, continuing to help others or practicing was never an issue. Nor do I think the BOK will be used against "us". Especially in CA, whatever "they" do will hardly impact anyone doing the work, whether legally or illegally. The laws will be close to unenforceable. I practiced "illegally in Berkeley, for 16 years. There are many that have done that much longer and are still doing so.

What it will impact are those coming into the work. The ante for entry was too high @ 100 hours so far as I am concerned. Many of the first 100 hours of my training was not needed to do the work. The first 100 hours was enough for me to do the work legally under the license of the Berkeley Y. Because of the law programs such as the one I plugged into are and will (probably) never return. It is the public that loses on that one.

Anywayyyy... keep on keepin' on. I think I have had enough of this thread.

The Rev


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Comment by Noel Norwick on May 27, 2010 at 12:50pm

Carl & Rev: Apparently like you, I'm concerned about how the BOK will be used against us. Regardless, I think we shall still be able to find ways to continue helping other feel and function better!

Comment by Carl W. Brown on May 27, 2010 at 11:51am

Rev,

"“The Massage Therapy Scope of Practice Statement,” were specifically intended and drafted to describe and define the entire field of practice of massage therapy as it presently exists" in otherwords a laundry list of what could be precticed. However, it is disturbing that they also say "Over time, the MTBOK will be a source of information that legislative and regulatory bodies rely on to obtain the best information about our profession." We are in deep dodo because it will be construded as a real BOK.

Comment by The Rev on May 27, 2010 at 9:12am

I have not looked at the 50 page document but will be indulging in it once I am set up in my new digs. My prayer is the BOK is not a WOI (wealth of information) that will be used as a guideline for curriculum for future generations of those doing this work. I have a very limited BOK but have a really tremendous WOI and sometimes a WOMI, a wealth of misinformation.

Looking at the group that created the BOK is scary for me. Their credentials are impressive. How much of what they have is going to filter through into the MTBOK for their belief that what they chose to learn is what is required to do the work? (I think I asked that correctly.) Maybe it will become necessary to become a rocket scientist to do this work.

The Rev

Comment by The Rev on May 26, 2010 at 4:02pm

nahhhhh... I disagree. Massage is simply, "manipulation of tissues (as by rubbing, kneading, or tapping) with the hand or an instrument". "for therapeutic purposes" completed the definition. Even stating "for therapeutic purposes" is going to far. Defining massage was NOT a problem until some folk came along and decided massage was not massage but Massage Therapy, a whole new ballgame.

What needs to be defined is Massage Therapy. Let me take a stab at it. Massage Therapy is a ???? provided by a person that has completed a structured education/curriculum as mandated by law, that allows for them to call themselves a Massage Therapist.

Call me a Masseur, Rubber, Holistic Healthcare Practitioner and Health Educator, Posturologist, Somatic Neuromuscular Reeducator, a Student of Integrated Touch, but, please do not minimize my work by referring to me as a Massage Therapist, a title easily obtained by complying with a bunch of hoops mandated by law. .

Don't make me rant, Carl...

The Rev

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