Research

Three things Paige Mullins learned from developing the massage intervention for the Integrative Medicine for Pain in Patients with Advanced Cancer Trial.

The evolution of oncology massage started with patients, not researchers or practitioners.

Developing a massage protocol for the IMPACT study underscored that practitioners’ clinical reasoning and patient-centered understanding developed in clinical practice is critical to the research conversation.

Sometimes massage therapy research takes an unexpected turn. And that’s the reason to embrace it.

When it comes to research, massage therapists should be used for massage therapy studies. Not doing that devalues the profession.

Let your own research lead you where you want to go.

A growing body of research on the craniosacral rhythm (CSR) is working to validate what has been palpated for decades—the CSR is a distinct and measurable physiological rhythm that has given way to its own distinct therapeutic discipline.

Crafting a definition for this profession can help unify massage therapy and massage therapists in their roles as valid health-care providers.