12 CE Evidence-Based Clinical Massage Therapy & Bodywork (Computer-based Live Interactive Webinar)

This highly interactive webinar WILL count as a 12 CE Hour live hands-on class with both NCBTMB & The Florida Board of Massage!

This is an identical class to our live presentation however because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are now offering it at a reduced price via a live webinar.  You will have some opportunity to have instructor interaction with questions/answers and hear other students' questions regarding the presented material.  Our webinars are largely interactive with polls, break-out sessions with the other students and more.  We will email a link to access your live webinar shortly before the start of this online webinar.  Please login to your live webinar 30 minutes prior to the start of class.  Any student who is not logged in at the start of class, or anyone does not attend the entire online class will not receive a certificate or CE credit.  We cannot provide a certificate or partial CE credit for partial attendance for any webinar.  Thank you.

This 12 CE Hour Evidence-Based Clinical Massage Therapy & Bodywork Computer-based Live Interactive Webinar is offered in EASTERN TIME on the following dates:

• Please select "1:00 pm January 28, 2023" above for the following 2-day class schedule: Saturday & Sunday, January 28 & 29, 2023, 1 pm - 7:30 pm Eastern Time Zone

A 30-minute meal break provided in the middle of most classes as well as a 10 minute break each class hour.

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Practically ALL CE Institute LLC classes are taught as evidence-informed education.  In this class, we'll teach you what evidence-informed and evidence-based means, and why it is important to learn and practice from evidential methods.

Clinical practitioners, including licensed massage therapists, should always practice with an evidence-based approach.  Evidence-based work can validate a practitioner's treatment as therapeutic and effective. 

In this 12-hour class, we will review up to 100 or more massage-related published medical research studies.  This includes reviewing research differences between case studies, clinical trials and systematic reviews. We will simultaneously use this research to teach similar hands-on skills and bodywork approaches that are used in the research studies.  By the end of class, practitioners should find that the reviewed research and simultaneous hands-on practice has improved, validated and/or corrected hands-on skills. 

The medical research and hands-on skills that will be reviewed in this evidence based training includes:

• Retrograde application
• Working around the sternocleidomastoid (SCM)
• Carotid artery precautions and contraindications
• Effective trigger pointing of the suboccipital muscles
• Safely improving deep pressure applications
• The difference between dull and sharp elbow deep pressure application
• Pain relief achieved through massage therapy application
  
• Massage therapy applications to increase ROM (range of motion)
• Sports massage studies for athletic treatment
• Specific applications to treat regional areas, i.e. back, hamstrings, quadriceps, cervical area, etc.
• Therapeutic approaches to treat arthritis symptoms
• How to help prevent secondary injury from swelling
• Applications to treat plantar fasciitis
• Bodywork approaches to reduce anxiety
• Oncology massage benefits
• Oncology myths
• Joint replacements
• Bodywork approaches used for cellulite improvement
• Techniques used to treat fibromyalgia symptoms
• Endocrine and hormonal changes with massage therapy application
  
• Applications used to lower blood pressure
• Applications used to increase circulation and improve skin blood flow response
• Studies reviewing reflexology efficacy
  
• Hands-on practice of a foot reflexology colon flush
• Reflexology myth working around prenatal ankles
• Cryotherapy applications
• Heated thermal therapy applications
• Therapeutic effects including antimicrobial properties of essential oils
• Vibrational spectroscopy
• How to create an ambience bowl
• A 30-minute 6-step massage therapy treatment medically shown in research to “significantly reduce” headache frequency
• Comparison student activity: using heat on the abdomen versus deep pressure effleurage to increase distal extremity temperature 
• Timing and frequency of massage therapy appointments and applications
• Prenatal massage therapy studies
• Deep tissue and deep pressure massage therapy studies
• Myofascial release studies
• Trigger point studies
• Hot stone massage studies
• Manual lymphatic drainage studies
• Cupping studies
• Geriatric massage and bodywork studies
• DOI or digital object identifier definition and use
• The difference between case studies, comparative research, clinical trials and reviews
• The difference between blind and double blind research studies
• The difference between high and low quality research studies

This is an extremely fast-paced course to review as much research, medical condition and practice as possible in 12 hours. Practitioners should know the basics of of trigger point therapy and myofascial release.  We will review studies that includes this type of bodywork, but we will not be teaching what these modalities are nor how to practice them which is why this class is advanced.  Some of the hands-on skill practiced in this advanced training will require basic massage therapy skills.

Some of the hands-on skills reviewed in these research studies will require further hands-on training beyond the time we have to teach in this evidence based course.  For example, we will teach therapists how to perform a reflexology colon flush on the feet, but we will not be training therapists to become reflexologists. The same applies to all of the massage and bodywork modalities reviewed in this course.  Everyone of all skill levels will be able to follow along and participate in the hands-on practice in this course, but if you'd like to become better skilled in any individual modality, you will need to follow-up with additional/individual training on your own in that modality.  We will simply review research of various massage therapy and bodywork practices, and therapists should seek additional training in any field where they would like to practice more.  

This course is designed to provide massage therapists innumerous amounts of research to both validate and improve their work.

CE Broker Tracking #: 20-898021