The Effects of Massage Strokes

This week we will be taking a deeper look at the physiological effects of massage strokes.


Task 1: Read the relevant sections pertaining to the effects of massage strokes in Mosby's chapter 9. There is a brief overview on page 293 followed by more specific effects of each stroke from pages 312-328.

Task 2: A recording of Wednesdays elluminate session can be viewed here.

Sustainable Massage Practice 2

The question for this week is

“What could be done to make massage practice more sustainable?”

Task 1: Dedicate one hour to considering this question.

• Consider the inputs and outputs of massage practice
  (products, waste, time, money, psycho-emotional effects)
  
  
• Your notes on the massage process might help to trigger your thinking
  
  

Task 2: Discuss this topic with your classmates and lecturer

An elluminate session was held on Wednesday the 18th of June. Here is the recording.

Sustainable Massage Practice

Over the next two weeks, you will explore sustainability as it relates to massage practice.

Here are your tasks for this week....

Task 1 - Exploring sustainability
Complete this learning module

Task 2 - Sustainability Strands.
After reading through the Exploring sustainability learning module, you should visit the Google document - Sustainability Strands - and add one action, one product and one service that would enhance each type of sustainability.

Task 3 - Assessment
Task 6 will be emailed out to you shortly.

Task 4 - Introducing Massage New Zealand
David, as the acting MNZ representative for the Lower South Island will talk about MNZ, and why you should become a member of our professional organisation. This will be via an Elluminate session

Wednesday 4 June @ 8pm.
The session has been recorded. Click here to view it.

Ethical Considerations of Massage

Week starting May 26

The focus this week is on the ethics of massage and why they are important. I have created a google document with a brief description of common ethical consderations associated with massage, your task this week is to read this document and add your thoughts on why each point is valid to massage. You may use examples, real or hypothetical, to help illustrate your answers.
Feel free to add any other ethical considerations which are not listed.


Activities for this week:

Add your thoughts to the google document Ethical Considerations of Massage

Legislative Context of Massage

Week starting May 19

Update: For the link to wikieducator document outlined below click here.

This week we are looking at the legal issues that concern massage. I will be posting a link to a wikieducator page as soon as I have that (my apologies for not having is ready now, I'm still learning how to use wikieducator!), I want you to read through this document and think about how aspects of it may effect you in a massage practice.


There will be a short elluminate session on Wednesday 21st at 8pm. You can join this session here.

If you have not yet posted to last weeks google document please do so as the rest of your class are relying on your info. It is disappointing that many of you still have not completed this simple task.

Activities for this week

• Read legalities document before Wednesdays elluminate session.
  
• Elluminate session wednesday 8pm.
• Complete your groups assigned task from last week. Post here.

Historical, cultural and philosophical approaches to massage

Week starting May 12

Edit: May 13. Elluminate session now set for wednesday May 14 at 8pm. Join session here.

This week is a continuation of last weeks activity looking at historical approaches to massage. It seems that a lot of the groups have not posted on last weeks document - remember that the entire class needs your input to this in order to complete your next assignment. If you have not yet contributed you will need to do so before this weeks elluminate session on wednesday. Your can post your findings here.

There will be an elluminate session this week but the time is not finalised yet due to booking problems. At this stage it will be at 8pm on wednesday the 14th, I will post a link to the session once it is booked. I suggest you all have a read through chapter one of Mosby's Fundamentals before attending.

Activities for this week

• Finish your activity from last week by posting your groups info here
  

• Read chapter one of Mosby's berfore attending elluminate session (time to be confirmed).
  

Historical approaches to massage

Week starting May 5

Hi everyone, just to let you know I will be taking over fundamentals from David for the rest of this term.

This week we will be looking at the history of massage, how and why it has developed as it has, and various cultural and philosophical approaches.

Your groups with research topics for this weeks activity are:

Alan, Jaime, Moira, James

Ancient Massage (up to 0 BC)

Differences between Eastern & Western massage

Simon, Anthony, Janelle, Natasha

Western Massage development up to the 15th C.
Influence of the renaissance and enlightenment periods on massage

Sally, Tessa S, Hannah, Tessa G

Massage Scandals
Massage associations in New Zealand

Kathryn, Shannon, Deborah

Ling & Metzger
Massage in the 20th Century, including notes on the following influential people:
· Emil Vodder
· Janet Travell
· Cyriax

Karen, Sandra, Victoria

Miri Miri & Lomi lomi
Contemporary massage practice, including the following:
· Craniosacral
· Neuro-muscular
· Myofascial release
· Rolfing
· Bowen technique

Activities for this week

• In your groups research your assigned topics and post your findings under the appropriate heading to the google document - History of massage


• The document created will be a useful resource for task 5 so the entire class will be dependant on your quality of your research.

Resources:

History of massage in NZ

The impact of the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods on massage practice

Indications for Massage Practice

Week starting 14 April

This week in Fundamentals we will be looking at indications for massage practice. Because the textbook arrived at UBS over a week ago, I have assumed that you now have a copy of the text when preparing this week’s activities. The activities for this week are also based on the previous week’s work on the effects of massage.

So far it appears that approximately 1/3 of the class have contributed to the Google document – The effects of massage. I accept that some people have some fairly good reasons for this, but I would like to remind you at this stage about the difference between active and passive learning. If you want to get the most of your learning experience, it’s essential that you make the most of the learning activities which have been prepared for you.

Activities for this week

• Complete this week’s learning module – Indications for massage practice
  
  
• Elluminate session – Wednesday, 16 April, 8pm
  This has been recorded (see the indications learning module)
  
  

The effects of massage

Week beginning 8 April, 2008

So far in this course we’ve looked at the massage process, medical screening, and contraindications. This week, we’ll be investigating the effects of massage. If you are to meet your client’s goals, you need to have a good understanding of the effects of the massage strokes that you are using, and how they relate to your client’s medical condition and history.

I’m aware that some of you will not yet have your textbook, so I’ve limited the use of Mosby’s in this week’s activities. You will need to have Mosby’s for next week’s activities.

The learning module for this week is Investigate the effects of massage. You'll notice that part of the exercise involves working on a Google document. I believe that I've sorted out the problem that was blocking access last time we tried to do this, but if you have any trouble accessing it this time, please let me know through the course email group.

Contraindications

Week beginning 31 March, 2005

This week, we’ll be looking at contraindications for massage – when you shouldn’t massage your client. It’s essential that you have a good understanding of massage-related contraindications so that you can provide safe massage treatment.

I am aware that there have been some troubles with the textbook not being in stock. This weeks material does not use Mosby’s fundamentals of massage very much as a result.

You will need to complete the following before the end of the week

1. Contraindications learning module
   
2. Elluminate session – endangerment sites

Elluminate session

From this point onwards you can expect an elluminate session to be held every Wednesday from 1-2pm for this class.

This week the elluminate session will focus on endangerment sites. This session will not be recorded because it will include copyrighted material. If you are unable to attend the session, some equivalent reference material will be made available through the Anatomy1 blackboard shell.

Wednesday 2 Apr, 1-2pm
Click here to join the meeting.

Record Keeping

Period: 17th- 28th March

Aim: This week you will be introduced to the record keeping process that you will use throughout your training.

There are three tasks for you to complete (or at least get started on) this week.

1. Elluminate session
2. Readings
3. Work through the Create a Client Intake Form learning resource

Elluminate

Kicking off the week, we’re going to have a session in Elluminate. In this session we will explore the S.O.T.A.P. assessment and record keeping model, and how it relates to the massage process. This is a pretty important session, as you are required to record all of your logged treatments for the course in the S.O.T.A.P. format.

In case you were unable to attend the session, it has been recorded and is now available below.

Elluminate session
Wednesday 12:30 – 1:30pm
Click here to listen to a recording of the session.

Readings

• Read the following sections in Fritz (2004) - Chapter 3 – Medical Terminology for Professional Record Keeping
• Medical Terminology – Fundamental Word Elements , Abbreviations, Terminology as an ongoing study
• Record Keeping – Clinical Reasoning & Charting, Functionally Oriented Goals

Create a Client Intake Form

Work your way through the create a client intake form learning resource.

You need to have your own client intake form before you are allowed to log any hours, and the creation of this form is part of Assessment Task 1 for Fundamentals, so it’s a good idea to get going on this now.

References

Fritz, S. (2004). Mosby’s fundamentals of therapeutic massage (3rd ed.). Missouri: Mosby.

The Massage Process

Week beginning 10 March, 2005

In your last practical block you were introduced to the massage process.
This week in Fundamentals we will explore this process from another perspective.

You will need to complete these activities by the end of the week

• Read Chapter 6 of Mosby's Fundamentals of Therapeutic Massage (Fritz)
• Complete questions 4-9 in Task 2
• Complete the learning module - The Massage Process
• Complete questions 1-3 in Task 2

You've got a lot of reading this week I know.
I'll also put a few questions through the email group for us to discuss.

OMTM3 Fundamentals of Massage

Level: 4
Credits: 10

• Directed Learning hours: 50
• Self Directed Learning hours: 50
• Total Learning Hours: 100

Course Blog

Content 1 Aims 2 Pre-requisites 3 Co-requisites 4 Learning Outcomes 5 Content 6 Attendance Requirements 7 Completion requirements 8 Student Reading List

Aims

• This course aims to provide students with a theoretical framework within which to practice relaxation massage.

Pre-requisites

• None

Co-requisites

• OPTM1 Study Skills
• OPTM2 Basic Massage

Learning Outcomes

At the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Describe the development of massage practice
2. Describe different cultural and philosophical approaches to massage
3. Describe the effects of and contraindications to massage
4. Describe the scope of massage practice
5. Describe ethical and legal considerations in massage practice
6. Use client health records effectively in a relaxation massage practice
7. Describe how issues of sustainability relate to massage practice

Content

• The massage process
• Contraindications and endangerment sites
• Effects of massage
• Scope of massage
• The historical development of massage
• Ethical and legal considerations relevant to massage
• Record keeping for relaxation massage practice
• Sustainable massage practice

Attendance Requirements

Students will be expected to engage with online discussions and activities and in some instances, participation may be required.

Completion requirements

Students must achieve competency in all assessment tasks for completion of this course. Students attendance and participation must also comply with the attendance requirements of the course.

Student Reading List

Required Reading Resources:

• Fritz, S. (2004). Mosby’s fundamentals of therapeutic massage (3rd ed.). Missouri: Mosby.
• Premkumar, K. (2000). Pathology A to Z – A handbook for massage therapists (2nd ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Recommended Reading Resources:

• The course coordinator may recommend additional reading resources.