Author: Julie Onofrio
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Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology
Anatomy defined – the study of the structure of the body and the relationship between structures Physiology defined – study of function of body parts Levels of structural organization:Atoms – Smallest building block of matter made up of protons, electrons and neutrons. Two or more atoms combine to form molecules which are the building block…
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MT BOK Blog
MT BOK part 1. MT BOK part 2. This is MT BOK part 3. Taken from www.archive.org 09/15/2020 Saturday, April 2, 2016 Past time to update. So here it is, almost 5 years since the inaugural MTBOK was published, and what has happened? I’m sorry to say that ultimately what began as a brief pause…
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MT BOK part 2
Part One, MT BOK Here. Links go to archive.org to copy of original website. Task Force Member BiographiesBryan Fong, LMT, MBA, NCTMBMegan E. Lavery, LMT, CZB, NCTMBKevin Pierce, LMT, MBASusan G. Salvo, BEd, LMT, NTS, CI, NCTMBSteven Schenkman, BS, LMTDawn M. Schmidt, BS, LMTJoEllen SeftonMichael Shea, PhD, LMTChip Hines, MS, PMP, LMT, NCTMB Bryan Fong,…
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Massage Therapy Body of Knowledge (BOK)
Final Documents of BOK as accessed from archive.org from the original website www.mtbok.org (https://web.archive.org/web/20190430194533/http://www.mtbok.org/) MT BOK Website from archive.org Download the whole website in a Word .doc or Adobe PDF. Article: Developing, Maintaining, and Using a Body of Knowledge for the Massage Therapy Profession, International Journal of Massage and Bodywork, 09/21/2011. JoEllen M. Sefton ,…
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Massage Therapy Defined
Best Practices Forum Clarifying Definitions for the Massage Therapy Profession: the Results of the Best Practices Symposium Massage is a patterned and purposeful soft-tissue manipulation accomplished by use of digits, hands, forearms, elbows, knees and/or feet, with or without the use of emollients, liniments, heat and cold, hand-held tools or other external apparatus, for the…