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Comment by Keith Eric Grant on October 29, 2009 at 9:57pm

Jan, another media enabler that I recently picked up on in the Twitter feeds from the 2009 Science Writers conference (#sciwri09) is SoundSlides. This could also be a way of presenting any drawings, diagrams, ... that we capture.

Comment by Bonny Donnelly on October 29, 2009 at 10:10am

Greetings all!
Along with Ernesto Ortiz, I am teaching the Tian Di Bamboo Massage! We use only 100% bamboo cho sticks and are seeing wonderful benefits for out clients and ourselves as therapists.
Check it out! To read more about this work please go to: http://www.journey2theheart.com/bamboomassage.htm
In addition, please see the recently published article in Massage Today magazine: http://www.massagetoday.com/mpacms/mt/article.php?id=13938

Comment by Jan Schwartz on October 29, 2009 at 6:04am

Keith, Voice Thread would be a great way to get feedback! I've been "watching" it since it's inception--it is a very cool tool and easy to use. It's used quite a bit in education, even for little kids.

Comment by Pete Pfannerstill on October 29, 2009 at 2:59am

Leslie, Happy to be invited to join the MTF group. The Elevate Your Practice Using Kinesio Tape, Biofreeze and Prossage seminar series continues to get rave reviews across the country. It was good to see you last month in Orlando at the AMTA Convention. Take care. Pete Pfannerstill, PhD, LMT, CKTI www.ultrasportsmassage.com

Comment by Keith Eric Grant on October 28, 2009 at 5:57pm

Jan, yes, I think there is a high likelihood that we will be able submit a good discussion on what we have learned, what raw information in terms of recorded audio and video media we have collected and can make available, what transcripts we have, and what distillation and feedback to date we'll have at that point.

Our working meeting is just prior to the MTF research conference in May. John mapped out a rough schedule for activities following that, with the hope of creating an initial synthesis and making raw data available and opening for comments by Fall 2010. By Spring 2011, we should be able to do a good discussion and may have an interim paper. We are planning a fairly extended period of soliciting comments via publications, conferences, and the web to ensure that we catch as many viewpoints an as many parties of interest as feasible. Whatever we generate as a synthesis, we are determined to have as much raw input as possible available so that others can see the path we walked and, when review is due, examine the record if revisions are considered.

I don't know how sophisticated we can get in our achiving, but I've been impressed with what the Sloan Consortium did with "Voice Thread" in making presentations from their conference on emerging technologies in online learning available. Voice thread allows others to attach comments, audio, video to a presentation, so that it becomes a post-presentation discussion.

Comment by Jan Schwartz on October 28, 2009 at 4:18pm

Thanks for the links, Keith. Any chance you will have a second report for the 2011 NARCCIM?

It does seem, in some ways, easier to get it out to the larger CAM community than to the massage community, perhaps because many within don't recognize the importance? Of course in this particular group we have the choir--a good thing.

Comment by Keith Eric Grant on October 28, 2009 at 4:00pm

One point I forgot to mention, that I believe should be mentioned. Post-publication of the "Guidelines" paper, and largely through the dedication of John Balletto, Donelda Gowan_Moody, and Dale Healey, we've been able to submit talks or posters on our efforts in several CAM conferences. I mention this, because it both creates visibility and awareness of our effort within the greater CAM and is setting the background for later credibility. It also helps to provide us with a reality check from any in-conference or post-conference responses. We are very consciously attempting to carry-out this entire development using a "glass-house" approach.

• AMTA 2009 Poster Session
• Massage Today Article
• The Integrator Blog (mention)
• In-CAM Conference, 2008
• North American Research Conference on Complementary & Integrati...

And, we are, of course, humbly grateful that the Foundation has stayed the course with our efforts despite difficult economic times.

Comment by Keith Eric Grant on October 28, 2009 at 3:10pm

Hi Jan,

On reason for publishing the paper when we did and in and open-access journal was to make it accessible. We also wrote it, not just to describe our own work, but quite intentionally to create a common background for discussion and, similarly, awareness of the evolution of self-reflection and adoption of technology and technology standards in other areas of health care. I also keep mentioning the paper in a number of venues.

Perhaps the harder part to convey is not knowledge that it exists, but knowledge that it's important. With a bit of luck, we'll have a lot more to open up for prolonged and iterative review by fall of next year. Despite having diverse background and experiences, The committee itself is and has been remarkable -- in our ability to converse and work toward consensus and in our joint commitment to transparency and documentation of process.

Today, I've been setting up software (RefBase) and starting to capture background papers for discussions on use of massage for low back pain and stress. With the economic picture as it has been, we had to drop consideration of the third area lymphedema for the initial pass. The main focus, however, is not just to create a limited number of guidelines, but to create and model a viable, ongoing process and a benchmark of comparison for doing it. High goals. Wish us luck.

Comment by Jan Schwartz on October 28, 2009 at 2:01pm

I just reread the great piece of work done by the Best Practices Committee. Isn't there some way to get this info to the larger community--practitioners, schools, and especially students who really need to be informed about what is possible within the profession and what the Foundation is about? There are 1500 schools, give or take, in this country. How many even mention the Foundation in their programs?

Comment by Laura Allen on October 28, 2009 at 1:49pm

Hello one and all, glad to be here! It was great this year at the AMTA convention in Orlando to see how successful the dollar-per-member campaign has been at supporting the Foundation--and the wonderful chapters of AMTA who have stepped up to the plate and increased their donation. It's also gratifying that in spite of all the politics and differences, the other associations have also been generous in supporting it, too.

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