Why Medical Massage? Medical Massage. Curriculum Outline. 12 Online Modules 2016 PROGRAM

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2 Medical Massage Why Medical Massage? Curriculum Outline Hybrid Online and On site Course 12 Online Modules (see below for more information) - approx. 15 hours 2.5 On site Days (see below for more information) - 20 hours Why Do We Offer a Course in Medical Massage? Medical Massage for Small Animals / Exotics Can Help You Improve Your Practice and Enjoyment of Medicine Medical Massage Techniques Are Perfect for: Veterinary integrative practitioners Veterinary acupuncturists Pain medicine clinicians Rehabilitation clinics Veterinary technicians What Will I Learn? The science of massage Swedish massage techniques Myofascial anatomy relevant for canine massage Muscle physiology in health and disease Palpation skills Causes of limited range of motion The science of stretching How to use stretching safely in practice Massage for relaxation This course teaches you how to develop thinking fingers, i.e., become proficient at informed palpation and able to incorporate what your myofascial evaluation tells you with the other diagnostic information you gather in each patient encounter. As you cultivate sensory awareness in not only your hands but also your powers of observation through visual, auditory, and even olfactory channels, you will augment your understanding of what your patients are experiencing (e.g., stress, pain, weakness, neurologic impairments, and the like). This will improve your diagnostic accuracy and acumen and build your ability to benefit your patients in a preventive and less invasive manner, which can improve clinical outcomes. Medical Massage for Small Animals/Exotics Teaches You How to Help Your Patients Heal by Activating Their Own Self-Healing Processes Conventional veterinary medical education focuses mostly on treatment with pharmaceuticals and surgery. This overlooks the large and growing body of literature from many disciplines, including osteopathic medicine, attesting to the effectiveness and safety of scientific, integrative approaches such as massage and other manual therapy methods. The time has come to recognize and routinely implement natural healing techniques grounded in rational, science-based, and modern medical knowledge. This will bolster patients innate restorative capacities by activating selfhealing networks comprising systems throughout the body, integrating neurologic, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, digestive, immunologic, and homeostatic processes. It will also aid in restoring functional mobility for patients with musculoskeletal, neurologic, and post-surgical deficits as well as a wide range of other challenges. Medical Massage Will Deepen Your Awareness of Whole-Body Medicine and the Clinically Significant Role of Scientific, Integrative, and Physical Medical Modalities Our course teaches about the relationship between structure and function, i.e., how a healthy as well as an injured structural support network impacts function and vice versa. The didactic instruction contained within the online curriculum will give you greater appreciation for the roles of myriad tissues in the body that aid in self- healing and ways in which your manual therapy treatments can maximize their capacities. Continuing Education and the Certificate of Completion Our focus is to assist veterinary practitioners / technicians in acquiring science-based knowledge and evidence-informed skills that they can put to use every day. Graduates that successfully complete this program will receive a certificate of completion in medical massage for small animal and (small) exotics. This certificate provides verification of the 35 continuing education hours that you completed in the program. This is not a certification in canine massage therapy, per se, which is what a trade school or other program might offer. Instead, our goal is to encourage the introduction of these techniques into veterinary medical and surgical environments in order to facilitate their patients recovery and improve clinical outcomes. Additional advantages of taking this course include improved diagnostic accuracy with the introduction of myofascial palpation as well as heightened enjoyment of treating animals with techniques they often actually welcome and appear to invite. 12 Online Modules The online curriculum will follow the layout of the required text, Canine Medical Massage. The instruction will explore, in depth, the science, evidence, and practice of massage as well as the value of myofascial palpation and the insights it provides regarding diagnosis and treatment direction. Online materials will include short videos and case vignettes, assigned readings, home practice, and discussions about how massage affects our patients and fits into the bigger picture of integrative medicine. Each module will have a self-assessment quiz at the end through which you will be able to gauge the level at which you grasped the material provided in the course. Adapted from the Table of Contents in the book, Canine Medical Massage, these are the topics that Dr. Robinson will cover in the didactic portion of the course, i.e., the online program. Module 1: Survey of the Field History of Massage in Humans and Non-Human Types of Massage - How Do They Relate to What You Will Be Learning? Neurophysiology of Massage Massage Therapy Regulations Module 2: Indications for Massage and Factors to Consider Typical Indications for Canine Medical Massage Precautions and Contra indicators Medications with Relevance to Massage Module 3: Intake, Assessment, and Examination Recording Findings Patient Observations Discussions with Clients Myofascial Palpation Evaluation Module 4: Negative Impact of Pain and Stress Pain Scales Identifying Pain and Discomfort Integrative Analgesia Identifying Sources of Stress Integrative Methods to Reduce Stress Module 5: Treatment Techniques Swedish Massage and Application of Massage Strokes Getting Started with Massage Basic Massage Strokes Passive Touch Effleurage Students learn how to couple tactile awareness with cogitive insight into the causes and treatment of soft tissue pain. PAGE 2 PAGE 3

3 Medical Massage Petrissage Friction Compression Skin Rolling Trigger Point Deactivation Assembling a Modifiable Routine Anti-Anxiety Supplements Music Therapy Medical Acupuncture and Electro-acupuncture Aromatherapy Laser Therapy Therapeutic Ultrasound Module 6: Clinical Applications for Specific Anatomic Regions Module 10: Case Studies Head and Face Thoracic Limbs Module 11: Taking Care of YOU Posture, Body Mechanics, Emotional Wellness Pelvic Limbs Learning medical massage Neck/Back/Spine as an Entity Module 12: How Would You Approach This Situation? Tail (if present) and having the opportunity to Cases and Issues that Can Arise The instructors in Medical learn it from Dr. Robinson has Ethical Quandaries Module 7: Clinical Applications that May Benefit from Massage Massage are dynamic been one of the best Diagnostic Dilemmas Digestive System and energizing. experiences of my Practice Considerations etc. Constipation and Diarrhea academic career to date. Veterinarian Specializing in Ileus (Post-Operative or Stress Induced) Emergency Medicine Fourth-Year Gastric Dilation/Volvulus 2.5 Day Hands-On Workshop On site Veterinary Student Pancreatitis Inappetence The on site portion will run from June 9-11, 2016 (2.5 days). The focus of this workshop is to refine Endocrine Problems and build upon techniques already taught in the online series of modules. With the didactic portion of the program already addressed in the online modules, the workshop will focus predominantly on Orthopedic Issues bodywork. This will include learning and practicing techniques on fellow human course attendees. Cranial Cruciate Ligament Disease Coxofemoral Osteoarthrorsis or Dysplasia Animal participants will consist mainly or entirely of dogs, given the stress experienced by cats Osteoarthritis and exotics not only when they travel but also when they are confronted by unfamiliar people and Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction surroundings. Neurologic Disorders Required Text Peripheral Neuropathy Spinal Cord Injury and Intervertebral Disc Disease Robinson NG and Sheets S. Canine Medical Massage. Techniques and Applications. Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Seizure Disorders Publication year: Publisher: American Animal Hospital Association Press Miscellaneous Conditions Purchase at Amazon.com, or the AAHA website, or from other book retailers Dental Disease Urinary or Fecal Incontinence New Format Oncology We ve moved didactic instruction online. As long as you have a smart phone, tablet or desktop Module 8: Specific Patient Populations computer, you can participate in the online course. You will finish in Colorado at our 2.5 day hands on workshop. Pediatrics Athletes Admission Eligibility Geriatrics Registrants must be either licensed veterinarians, certified veterinary technicians, veterinary Hospice Patients students, or hold an equivalent right to practice veterinary medicine such as serving as faculty in Exotics (Rabbits, Guinea Pigs, Avian Species) a veterinary college. Veterinarians and veterinary technicians will need to include a copy of their license/certification with their registration form. Veterinary students must include a letter that they are Module 9: Adjunctive Approaches to Massage - Integrative and/or in good standing from the dean s office of their college. Physical Medicine Please contact your state s licensing or comparable regulatory board (if you practice outside the Nutritional Supplementation for Osteoarthritis Patients United States) with regard to whether this course qualifies for continuing education credits. PAGE 4 Nutritional Supplementation for Support of Oncology Patients PAGE 5

4 Acupuncture Medical Massage GOALS and OBJECTIVES Course Director: Goal 1: Develop a sensitivity and awareness of the integrative approach to patient needs, issues and concerns. A. Identify and consider a variety of factors when assessing and treating the patient. B. Recognize how the emotional state can impact the healing process. Narda G. Robinson, DO, DVM, MS, FAAMA (pictured at right) is a leading authority on scientific integrative medicine from a One Health perspective. With over two decades of practicing, teaching and writing about integrative medical approaches in both veterinary and human osteopathic medicine, Dr. Robinson helps healthcare professionals sort fact from fiction. A scholar, researcher, and widely read author, Dr. Robinson holds the only professorship at a veterinary college designed specifically to investigate the legitimacy of integrative medicine. Over the past 16 years, Dr. Robinson has taught a variety of popular, scientifically based continuing education courses, ranging from medical acupuncture and massage to herbology and photomedicine. Dr. Robinson holds a Bachelor of Arts (AB) degree from Harvard/Radcliffe, a doctorate in osteopathic medicine (DO) from the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, a doctorate in veterinary medicine (DVM) and a master s degree in biomedical sciences (MS) from the Colorado State University of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. After achieving the status of fellow within the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture, a physician acupuncture leadership organization, she began serving on the American Board of Medical Acupuncture, the board-certifying organization for physician medical acupuncturists. Most recently, Dr. Robinson developed OneHealthSIM.org, a comprehensive, online educational center that conjoins her human and veterinary medical teaching programs and emphasizes the value of approaching medicine from a One Medicine, One Health perspective. Myofascial dysfunction creates widespread and frequently unrecognized pain and nearly always accompanies sickness and aging. C. Assess the physical factors that influence the patient s issues. D. Consider the impact of the patient s physical, mental, and emotional realms, including family and quality of care delivered, on his or her health status. Goal 2: Establish a firm foundation in medical massage fundamentals and master essential techniques. A. Demonstrate competency and care in soft tissue manual therapy techniques. B. Perform myofascial palpation and be able to derive insights on pain and health status from the findings (e.g., areas of tension, trigger points, and taut bands; spinal segmental somatic dysfunction, hyper- and hypotonicity, etc. Curriculum and faculty developed by Narda G. Robinson, DO, DVM, MS, FAAMA C. Be able to work calmly and gently with a live animal, taking into account his or her unique physical and emotional makeup and tolerance for touch. For More Information, D. Become conversant with the mechanisms of medical massage, including its impact on neurophysiologic and connective tissues. Contact: Sharon Sherwood Education and Events Director OneHealth SIM Studio 323 West Drake Road Suite 124 Fort Collins, CO E. Explain how soft tissue tension and pathology affects both structure and function. Goal 3: Become an advocate for medical massage and scientific integrative medicine. A. Be able to articulate the value of medical massage as it relates to the assessment and treatment of patients. B. Become an advocate for the integrative approach with professional colleagues and clients. C. Become a reflective practitioner who creates a habit of self-assessment for the purpose of sustaining a healing, caring professional environment. D. Consider a multifaceted treatment approach. Rhonda Reich, MA, LMT - (Instructor - also pictured at right) is a licensed massage therapist and has had a successful practice for the past 32 years. Rhonda received her certification in massage at The Boulder College of Massage Therapy and her Equine Massage Certification in Aspen, Colorado. Much of her time has been spent in the pursuit of excellence in massage education. She worked at The Boulder College of Massage Therapy for 20 years where she developed and instituted many educational programs, including Canine and Equine Massage Therapy. She has a private practice called Happy Tails in which she serves the needs of animals and their companions with massage. Rhonda Reich, MA, LMT Sharon@OneHealthSIM.org E. Consider the modifications required for your current medical record system or any conventional medical record system. Medical Massage for Animals at Your Fingertips! Learn anywhere, anytime. Learn at YOUR convenience. Phone: F. Implement myofascial palpation in every assessment of your patients. Sign up online at: OneHealth SIM Studio, LLC and Narda G. Robinson, DO, DVM, MS, FAAMA PAGE 6 PAGE 7

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