Massage Student & Therapist Resources

A Prayer for Massage Therapists

March 31, 2011

On my recent vacation in India, I spent a few days volunteering at Mother Theresa’s mission in Calcutta. A certain framed prayer hanging on the wall caught my eye. It is a wonderful way to clear your head and focus on bringing healing to the treatment room. It is a Christian prayer, but I [...]

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Registered Massage Therapy and Confidentiality

February 9, 2011

I was just recently posting some comics about massage and acupuncture on the website when I came across this one: It might seem harmless enough, but in Ontario, it is completely false. In Canada, all Registered Massage Therapists are bound to therapist-client confidentiality. It is one of the cornerstones of our profession. Confidentiality is also [...]

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Old Issues of the CMTO’s “The College Standard” Magazine

December 25, 2010

All RMT’s in Ontario can look forward to an audit by the CMTO every 3 years on average. Part of the audit concerns proving to the CMTO that we have kept in compliance with all of the College’s by-laws which includes reading the CMTO’s publication “The College Standard” and answering the mandatory CEU questions. For [...]

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Nerve Mechanics and Stretching

December 1, 2010

There is a 3 part series of articles explaining how the nervous system is related to pain on Todd Hargrove’s blog. I would strongly recommend all bodyworkers to have a look at it as it is a very simple explanation of some key concepts. Some points he raised: Nerves are flexible and slide back and [...]

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