Pain science discussions for RMTs
Summary: At Intent Health Clinic, we’re passionate about staying up to date on current evidence and research. We've enjoyed hosting pain science discussion groups for Registered Massage Therapists in Vancouver.
To date, here are some of the topics we’ve discussed:
An overview of modern pain science and clinical implications
Contextual factors that affect patient outcomes
- Enhance placebo, avoid nocebo: How contextual factors affect physiotherapy outcomes (Testa)
- Placebo and the new physiology of the doctor-patient relationship (Benedetti)
Bridging the gap: Deconstruction of the biomechanical, postural and pathoanatomical models (Laviolette)
- The end of the structural model (Lederman)
- A physiotherapist reflects on current evidence vs the facts he learned in school
Panel discussion: Central sensitization (Haag, Purves and Dr. McIImoyle)
- An introduction to central sensitization (CS)
- Practice guidelines: How to explain CS to patients with unexplained chronic musculoskeletal pain (Nijs)
What can RMTs learn from motivational interviewing?
- An introduction to motivational interviewing
- Occupational therapist Dr. Bronnie Thompson
- Motivational interviewing in healthcare
Book club: Professionalism, communication and the therapeutic relationship
Trauma-informed massage therapy