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PRESENTATION 3
MASSAGE
THERAPIST SUBMITTED TO: SHAYNA MORRIS
SUBMITTED BY SIMRAN (C0863653), JASKIRAT KAUR (C0867437), AASTHA MAHAJAN
(C0867443), NAVNEET KAUR (C0864217), RAMANDEEP KAUR (C0863567)

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 CONTENTS
◦ DESCRIBING THE POPULATION
◦ CONDITIONS TREATED BY MASSAGE THERAPISTS
◦ CODE OF ETHICS
◦ REGULATORY BODY
◦ PLACES WHERE MASSAGE THERAPISTS WORK
◦ EDUCATION
◦ AREAS WHERE MASSAGE THERAPISTS IS USEFUL
◦ HOW ARE MASSAGE THERAPISTS AND RECREATION THERAPISTS CONNECTED?
◦ DO THEY WORK TOGETHER?
◦ WHY SHOULD THEY WORK TOGETHER?
◦ REFERENCES
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 DESCRIBING THE PROFESSION:
MASSAGE THERAPIST
• The massage therapist is a trained, medical certified professional who therapeutically manipulates
the soft body tissues and muscles using hands and instruments .The therapist can induce pain relief
for health condition and relaxation by using varying degrees of movement and pressure.

• Massage therapist treats both stress related physical conditions and medical conditions ; such as

Fatigue

Anxiety

Headaches and Migraines

 Insomnia

 Chronic pain

Cancer recovery

Osteoarthritis
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 ◦ CODE OF ETHICS

The code of ethics is a document describing the behaviours, attitude and actions that support the ethical principles of the massage therapist

profession.

College of Massage Therapists of Ontario develop, establish and maintains the code of ethics for the massage therapist of Ontario.

Code of ethics assists the massage therapist in applying their professional judgement in evaluating and applying relevant principles in ethical

dilemmas.

• REGULATORY BODY

According to the Massage Therapy Act 1991, the profession of massage therapy is governed by the college of massage

therapists in Ontario.

The massage therapy in Canada is regulated in British Columbia, Ontario, Newfoundland, Labrador, New Brunswick, and

Prince Edward Island.

The purpose of the regulatory is to protect the public from harm and verifies the education and requirements of the practitioners.
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 MASSAGE THERAPISTS ARE FOUND IN THE
FOLLOWING PLACES

◦ Most of the massage therapist work as sole practitioners and works at

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 EDUCATION
◦ Completion of 18-24 months or 18-36 months program in massage
therapy from a licensed school with supervised practical training
◦ Registration with a regulatory body is required too for employment
purposes.

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 AREAS WHERE MASSAGE
THERAPY IS USEFUL
• Few areas where technology might be useful for massage therapists which will
be discussed in detail later are:
Booking clients appointments
Investigate recent advancement
Healing
• BOOKING CLIENT APPOINTMENTS:
Taking care of your clients is an important aspect of being a fantastic massage therapist. A big step in
achieving that goal is making scheduling appointments simple. Software that accomplishes this is
widely available and beneficial.
Many massage therapists use Mindbody to run their entire practice. It offers customers a method to
schedule appointments, among other helpful features.

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 • INVESTIGATE RECENT ADVANCEMENTS:
Researching the most recent methods is part of massage therapist technology. You
must discover classes on the subject and learn more after you become aware of a
new technique in order to put it into practice yourself.
• HEALING:
Massage therapist technology can also be used to heal people. There are machines
that can heat up sections of a nerve to help with healing. A TENS machine can be
used to assist a patient in healing and pain relief.
Massage therapists can benefit greatly from technology. Technology is a tool that
massage therapists can use for everything from business management to healing
and everything in between.

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 HOW ARE THEY CONNECTED?
• They are connected because their primary goal is to provide the patient or the client with good health and
wellbeing. Ensuring they are getting the best from the therapeutic procedure and living a healthy life.
• DO THEY WORK TOGETHER?
They sometimes work together because they both are working in the same field with their
primary goal to provide them with the best therapeutic procedures to facilitate their health.
Recreation therapists observe the lifestyles of the patients and recognize the needs that will
increase their quality of life. Whereas, massage therapists provide patients with massage
therapies to make their bodies relaxed or sometimes in paralysis situations to get the
paralyzed parts of the body back into work.
They do work together in the well-being centers and hospitals too.

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 WHY THEY SHOULD WORK
TOGETHER?
• Sometimes patients require both these therapies together, as in the case of
paralyzed clients, they need some massage therapies as well as to combat their
stress and frustration issues they need a recreational therapist to get back their
good mental as well as physical well-being.
• This can help the patient to attain his/her goal soon and live a normal life.

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 ◦ If massage therapists and recreation therapists work together, it will be beneficial for clients to
recover faster.
◦ As massage therapists help patients muscles relaxation, anxiety and stress.
◦ Recreation therapists help them to overcome their physical, cognitive and emotional health.
◦ Their collaboration will club their specific services for clients and then they get services from
both.
Getting a mixture of both of their services is the main advantage of collaboration.
Disadvantage of it may be that massage therapists and recreation therapists get into conflict
many timesaver patients health.
◦ Their thoughts maybe different about patients conditions.
◦ The time for their work together depends on the bonding.
◦ If they understand each other then they collaborate for a longer time.
◦ But also some specific and good amount of time inappropriate.

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 REFERENCES
◦ Code of Ethics. Code of ethics. (n.d.). Retrieved October 27, 2022, from

https://www.cmto.com/rules/code-of-ethics

◦ Do they work together(

Frequently Asked Questions About Recreational Therapy - Strive Recreational Therapy (striverts.com))

◦ How they are connected (The therapeutic relationship for massage therapists | (massageschoolnotes.com))

◦ UCSF Health. (2020, October 7). Massage Therapy. ucsfhealth.org. Retrieved October 27, 2022, from

https://www.ucsfhealth.org/treatments/massage/

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