MTABC SEED GRANTS – 2010 competition

Two grants a year for Massage Therapy research in BC, each worth $4000- deadline March1, 2010

The purpose of this seed grant is to provide funding for research in the development of the art and science of massage therapy.

The aim is to add to the overall massage therapy body of knowledge as practiced by RMT’s in BC. MTABC seed grant was established to further massage therapy research in BC.

For further information please go to our web page - http://bit.ly/7x8fTw

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Holistic Health Research announces 2010 research competitions in massage therapy

The Holistic Health Research Foundation has announced its 2010 open research competition in massage therapy. For 2010, there will be
TWO funding competitions, the first with a March 1, 2010 application deadline and the second with a September 30, 2010 application deadline.

The MTRF invites applications in areas indicated above. For BOTH competition cycles, a total funding amount of $50,000 is offered. Grant
applications up to $15,000 will be considered.

For more information please their web page: http://www.holistichealthresearch.ca/massagefund.htm

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International Journal of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork – Vol 2, No 3 (2009)

The IJTMB is the official journal of the Massage Therapy Foundation

International Journal of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork: Research, Education, & Practice

The International Journal of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (IJTMB) is an open access, peer-reviewed publication intended to accommodate the diverse needs of the rapidly-expanding therapeutic massage and bodywork community. Principal sections of the journal span the areas of research, education, and clinical practice.

IJTMB is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, CrossRef, and Healthindex.

Vol 2, No 3 (2009)

Table of Contents

Editorial

International Journal of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (IJTMB): A First-Year Retrospective View Reflecting Google Analytics and Open Journal Systems Sources
Glenn M. Hymel, EdD, LMT	1-3

Fascia Research II: Second International Fascia Research Congress
Thomas W. Findley, MD, PhD	4-9

Research

Understanding the process of fascial unwinding
Budiman Minasny, PhD	10-17

Practice

The Integrated Taxonomy of Health Care: classifying both complementary & biomedical practices using a uniform classification protocol
Antony Joseph Porcino, BSc, Colleen MacDougall	18-30

Commentaries

Letter to the Editor
Jo Smith, MEd (Hons), BHSc, BSc, RMT, Donna Smith, PGDip (TT), BTSM, RMT	31

News/Announcements

Entries for News/Announcements Section for September 09 Issue
Glenn M. Hymel, EdD, LMT	32-34

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Incredible growth in massage research publications

The number of papers published on massage using the search terms “massage and clinical trial” and “find all search terms”.
Searching CINAHL and Psycinfo simultaneously in EBSCO gave me these numbers

1990-1999  = 213
2000-2004 = 595
2005-2009 = 1371

These are my numbers. There is no control for “other” types of massage such as cardiac, prostate or other use of rubbing/massage.
A selection team would weed out none MT related uses. How ever in CINAHL and PsychInfo there is, in my experience, less noise in the results than what comes from Medline searches.
This article posted here goes in to detail of the issues around searching for MT research.

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RESEARCH IN YOUR PRACTICE: AN INTRODUCTION

Filed under: Research education, Tutorials, massage therapy, MTABC presentation, research