Professional Practice Management
- Accurate records - The cornerstone of good business management Appropriate and accurate recordkeeping is a cornerstone of good business practice in any field. But for the profession of Therapeutic Massage Therapy it has become a crucial next step in the professionalisation process.
- Ergonomics For Massage Therapists Greene and Goggins in their book Save Your Hands! The Complete Guide to Injury Prevention & Ergonomics for Manual Therapists, are of the opinion that by developing awareness of your exposure to risk factors in your work, the therapist can learn to mod
- Finance 1 Living within your means is more than paying your monthly bills by FNB from O Magazine
- Finance 2 How to Achieve "True Wealth", Adapted from article in FNB's magazine "Elements"
- Finding Solutions By Julia Griss One of my roles is to listen to my patients with empathy and compassion.
- Flushing Out Myths By Keith Eric Grant, PhD, NCTMB This article originally appeared in the December 2002 issue of Massage Today www.massagetoday.com. Published in InTouch with kind permission from the publishers.
- Jurisprudence An introduction into the lifeworld of a health professional by Erika Kruger
- Looking after your Body in Massage Dynamic Bodyuse for Massage Practitioners by Darien Pritchard Looking after your Body in Massage Dynamic Bodyuse for Massage Practitioners by Darien Pritchard
- Massage important in Khoisan healing approach - Oxford scholar explains lack of ethnographic interes Massage is a commonplace and important healing strategy amongst ‘Khoisan’ but ethnographic and anthropological literature largely ignores or downplays massage. This is the view of Doctor Chris Low of the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford
- Massage on the Move - Six points to consider about travel massage For many therapeutic massage therapists, particularly recent graduates, travel massage seems the perfect solution –set-up costs are low, you don’t have to pay rent for rooms and the demand for this kind of service is growing rapidly.
- Massage therapists: health professionals & business owners Every Therapeutic Massage Therapist is at the same time a health professional and a small business owner. Just like every other entrepreneur, they have to know their product, accurately identify their customers and systematically
- Massage Therapy Research Consortium The US-based Massage Therapy Research Consortium acts as a network for participating schools, providing opportunities to learn, share experiences and expertise, and support the research endeavours of the schools.
- Medical aid reimbursement for sports injuries FOCUS ON SPORTS MASSAGE: Two factors related to massaging sports participants, may jeopardise therapists’ and patients’ claims for reimbursement namely accurate use of professional title and lack of informed consent.
- Medical reimbursement for Therapeutic Massage Therapy: MTA addresses members’ fears & objections MTA Treasurer, Sabine Rohr and a small group of members are at it again, hoping to address the fundamental problems that undermined the last attempt to secure medical aid reimbursement for Therapeutic Massage Therapy.
- Mindful awareness: Just being there in solidarity By Julia Griss When a patient comes for a treatment, no matter if it's once or regularly, they bring with them their psyche, pain, history and of course their physical bodies.There is another side to massage, beyond seeing the body from a logical, reasoning mind.
- Music makes massage mean more By Derek Marks Derek Marks tells his own story to explain why music plays such an integral part in his massage practice.
- PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS PRACTICE: SARS cautions taxpayers on fraud SARS cautions taxpayers against scams seeking to defraud taxpayers of money or to obtain their bank and other personal details.
- PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS PRACTICE: Travel claims deductions Travel claims deductions - SARS introduces new requirements
- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Learning while surfing. By Erika Kruger How to use the Internet effectively for continued professional development - Erika Kruger shares her list of favourite therapeutic massage-related sites in a three-part series.
- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Blah, blah ... Blogging The extraordinary expansion of the Internet has placed every therapist at the centre of a World Wide Web and within reach of the largest single source of information in the world. Use of the Internet is changing the way we learn, the way we do research an
- PROFESSIONAL NETWORK: Ergonomics or the science of work By Bobbie Maree and Mandy Eagar In this new series Bobbie Maree and Mandy Eagar investigate the role that other health and wellness professions play in the massage therapit's referral network.
- PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: Applying ergonomic principles for perfect posture According to the Ergonomics Society of South Africa ergonomics relate to the design and evaluation of tasks, jobs, products, environments and systems in order to make them compatible with the needs, abilities and limitations of people.
- PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: Six reasons why patients will vote with their feet InTouch approached a number of people who regularly receive massage and asked them if they had ever traded one therapist for another and what had motivated them. Here are some of their replies:
- PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: The difference between colds and flu Although the promise of spring is in the air, we have not seen tha last of patients complaining of colds and flu. But what is what and when is it a cold and when is it flu?
- Range of insurance products available to therapeutic massage therapists further expanded MTA has managed to expand the range of insurance products available for Therapeutic Massage Therapists to include a short term insurance product. This product which was specifically designed to insure medical practices is now available to therapeutic mass
- Ready or not, here I come! By Orali Alcock Orali Alcock reflects on her experience in professional practice one year on from passing the AHPCSA registration exams
- Scope of Practice What is SOP and why do we have one? by B Esterhuysen
- Sell yourself! Ideas for more effective marketing Every therapist’s marketing campaign has to target a primary market (the patients) and a secondary market namely other health professionals. Therapists often focus on the primary market but neglect to pursue the secondary market
- The legal and professional parameters of sports massage FOCUS ON SPORTS MASSAGE: In terms of the current South African health and education legislation, the use of the term 'sports massage therapist' is illegal. Therapeutic Massage Therapy representative on the Allied Health Professions Council (SA), Briony