www.thebodyworker.com

And I thought I was the massage information Junkie….

www.massagenerd.com has got me beat!!!

He has everything from massage pictures, chart notes, all kind of forms, muscle charts,

Ebooks and Videos on every topic you can think of…

I just read about a new browser that Dr Mercola of www.mercola.com is promoting. He says he has stopped using Google and is using this new software that he created.

It is called Search Helper…

To me it looks like the same thing you can get from www.nichebrowser.com for free – you just have to deal with their sales efforts after the free download…but it is easy to get stop their efforts by opting out.
I emailed them both to see what is up with this new browser.

I already downloaded the nichebrowser and haven’t started using it but may because after I had it explained by mercola it made more sense to use…

Anyway…interesting stuff here on the web…everyone is just trying to make a buck!!

AMTA in their recent press release states that they are not making any plans to define Medical Massage.
Is AMTA Defining Medical Massage?

They go on to state that all massage is medical massage which I totally agree with. The problem is if we don’t define Medical Massage for ourselves, the insurance companies will and ARE already defining Medical massage.

American Whole Health Networks is in the process of creating a Clinical Massage Credentialing Process. It is not clear at this time what it entails, but they are setting up educational requirements and other criteria in order to become credentialed as a provider with them.

This is directly from their application form:

“Valid State or local license as Massage Therapist/Practitioner
q Entry level certification by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, or
equivalent State Exam *
q Attestation to at least 60 hours of documented continuing education course work in massage in past 4 years
q Copy of certificate of completion of at least one advanced massage training program of 25 contact hours or
more
q Documentation of at least two calendar years in active clinical practice
q Two Professional Reference Evaluations from health professionals attesting to personal and clinical practice
characteristics, at least one of which must be from a referring or supervising MD, DO, DC, PT, RN or from
an AWHN credentialed clinical massage practitioner who has supervised your practice.
PLUS
q Certification by a recognized national advanced clinical massage certification exam
OR
q Documentation of supervised contact hours** performing clinical massage
500 contact hours required for applicants with only a basic 500-hour massage education
OR
250 contact hours required for applicants with 1000 hour basic massage education that includes clinical assessment,
clinical pathology, and clinical charting,
OR
Postgraduate clinical training equivalent to 250 contact hours after their basic 500-hour education
With submission of verification documents for any postgraduate course, fellowship, preceptorship, or
clinically supervised practice
Please submit the following materials (obtain the forms at www.wholehealthpro.com):
q Completed AWHN network covered benefit and discount contract with signed agreement to business and financial
contract terms. If you are employed by an institution or group, your employer must contract for you as an associate.
q Completed AWHN credentialing or recredentialing application for clinical massage, this includes your online profile
listing for the AWHN web directories***
q Applicable credentialing fee
q Copy of your Published Fee Schedule
q Copy of your current professional liability (malpractice) policy face sheet
(At least $200/500,000 limits are required, GHC contracted practitioners must have 1Million/3Million)
q Copy of your current unrestricted state license and/or NCBTMB certificate
q Copy of the AWHN Attestation for Specialty Training and Experience form with supporting documents
q Send the Professional Reference Evaluation forms to your professional references to submit directly to AWHN, note
the names of the professional references on your credentialing application ”

So you see it may be too late already as someone else is defining our profession for us…

What do you think about the new clinical massage credentialing being set up by Whole Health Networks?

How should we as a profession define Medical or Clinical Massage?

Should any categories or modalities be restricted from doing medical massage? This one I feel should be a definite no – There should not be any restrictions on who is allowed to do medical massage. It would be like shooting ourselves in the foot. Who are we to determine what or what will not add to a persons healing process or health?

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