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What's Happening at the RMTAO
Conference Early-Bird Ends Today
If you register for the RMTAO Virtual Conference before today, May 3 at 4 p.m, you will save $50 on your conference registration! The early-bird rate is $245 for members for the full two-day conference.
Register online now to guarantee your spot in your favourite sessions.
The virtual RMTAO conference will take place on June 1 and 2, 2024. The conference will kick off with an engaging keynote presentation from Dr. James Makokis and Anthony Johnson, the first-ever Two-Spirit team on the Amazing Race Canada, focusing on equitable and accessible healthcare.
The conference also includes two education sessions of your choosing on each day in any of our session streams - business, specific conditions and specific populations, and recordings of all of the sessions on the days you signed up for. Recordings will be available for up to 3 months after the conference date.
Register for all the sessions in a single stream, or mix and match! You can also register for the full two-day conference, or choose a single day.
After today, May 3, at 3 p.m., the member-rate will go up to $295 for the full two day conference.
Register for the conference.
Thank you to our Title Sponsor, Robertson Hall.
Thank you to our Presenting Sponsors, Massage Addict, Jane and Hand and Stone.
 
Thank you to our Supporting Sponsor, Opis Supplies.
New Infographic - Ensure You See an RMT
The RMTAO has created an infographic highlighting the importance of ensuring you're seeing an RMT rather than an unregulated practitioner.
This infographic includes highlighting an RMT's education, the standards RMTs have to follow, the ways RMTs are regularly assessed and the process that exists if there is a complaint.
Download this infographic
This infographic is just one of the practical resources available to RMTAO members in the RMTAO Resource Library.
National Hospice Palliative Care Week
National Hospice Palliative Care Week is May 5-11, 2024. This week celebrates incredible care that helps countless people and their loved ones live their lives fully, at every stage of illness.
National Hospice Palliative Care Week hopes to raise awareness and foster communities that value the incredible support palliative care can offer. This week, we will help let people know how palliative care can help when life-limiting illness touches our lives.
Massage therapy for palliative care patients has been shown to decrease pain, reduce anxiety and relieve fatigue.
Learn more ...
If you want to increase your knowledge of the benefits of massage therapy for people with palliative care, join Susan Shipton on June 1 at the virtual RMTAO conference for her session focused on palliative massage.
Resource Spotlight - HST Guideline
The RMTAO has an HST Guideline for RMTAO members to ensure you have the necessary information to charge and remit HST correctly in your practice.
This guideline outlines what HST is, information on how to register, advice on not to "eat the tax," how HST applies to multiple practice environments and an outline of the process for HST to be removed from RMT services.
This is just one of the resources available for RMTAO members in our Resource Library.
Log in to access the HST Guideline
MassageNet Research Network for CMTA
The Massage Therapy Foundation has created a new resource that Canadian Massage Therapist Association (CMTA) members, including RMTAO members, may be interested in accessing.
MassageNet is the Massage Therapy Foundation’s supported practice-based research network (PBRN). The goal is to create a member-driven community of massage-focused clinicians, researchers, and allies that allows massage therapists to engage in research at various levels.
This type of network utilizes a method of research in which data is collected in clinical practice, rather than in a research environment. This method offers researchers the ability to better understand what actually happens in the field, rather than what happens in the tightly controlled research setting.
They hope to provide a nurturing environment for therapeutic massage-focused clinicians, students, educators, and researchers to develop and facilitate collaborative research projects and educational resources that directly impact and reflect massage practice.
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Member Question of the Week
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I am leaving the clinic where I currently work. What should I do with patient files, and what are my obligations to my patients?
The patient's health records can be kept with the RMT or with the clinic. The records should be kept 10 years after the patient's last appointment or 10 years after their 18th birthday, whichever is later.
If the records stay with the clinic, the RMT should ensure they have access to the records as needed.
The RMT can either take copies of the record or ensure they are allowed access to the records.
The RMT is obligated to notify their patients that they are leaving the practice to inform them where they can continue care if needed (either with the RMT or at the clinic) and where they can access their health records. You are not required to tell your patients where you are going. The clinic can also provide patients with this information on the RMT's behalf. This can be done in person, over the phone, by letter or by email.
You'll be able to read more about your obligations and things to consider when leaving a practice in our
Guideline to Leaving a Practice.
Do you have a question? Email info@rmtao.com.
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Business Tip of the Week
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Supporting Your Team’s Mental Health
Mental health has become a bigger priority for both employers and employees in recent years. But there's still more work to be done to support people's mental health at work. Here are some impactful strategies to prioritize.
Avoid one-size-fits-all solutions.
Different roles and responsibilities require different interventions. To better support your employees, address how, where, and when they work.
Include frontline managers.
External experts can help people managers develop crucial mental health literacy and learn to talk about and model healthy practices. And in turn, people managers can work with external resources to convey the mental health needs of their employees.
Walk the talk.
As a leader, you carry immense power to destigmatize mental health conversations. Be open with your team about your efforts to take care of your own mental health—and the impact of those efforts
Adapted from “5 Strategies for Improving Mental Health at Work,” by Morra Aarons-Mele
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Research Article of the Week
Effectiveness of Combined Program of Manual Therapy and Exercise Vs Exercise Only in Patients With Rotator Cuff-related Shoulder Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Context: Therapeutic exercise is considered the mainstay in the management of rotator cuff-related shoulder pain (RCRSP). Manual therapy (MT) interventions have also shown to be effective in RCRSP. However, the benefits of adding MT along with exercise interventions for the management of RCRSP remain unknown.
Objective: To evaluate the additional benefits of MT with exercise compared with exercise in isolation for the management of RCRSP.
Data sources: A search of PubMed, Scopus, PEDro, and EBSCO from the inception date of each database through April 20, 2022, was conducted for randomized trials comparing the additional effects of MT in exercise interventions compared with exercise alone for pain management and function in patients with RCRSP. Standardized mean differences (SMDs) and 95% CIs were calculated using a random-effects inverse variance model according to the outcome of interest and comparison group. Methodological quality was assessed with PEDro and quality of evidence with the grading of recommendations assessment, development and evaluation approach.
Study design: Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Level of evidence: Level 2.
Results: Twelve articles were found eligible and 8 of them demonstrated high methodological quality. Eleven articles were included for quantitative analysis. Pain with movement was not significantly different between MT and exercise versus exercise alone (SMD [95% CI] = -0.15 [-0.41 to 0.12]; I2 = 0%), whereas pain at rest was significantly improved in the groups that used exercise only with a moderate effect size (SMD [95% CI] = 0.47 [0.04 to 0.89]; I2 = 75%). Furthermore, shoulder function was not significantly different between MT and exercise versus exercise alone in the short term (SMD [95% CI] = 0.23 [-0.22 to 0.69]; I2 = 88%) or the long term (SMD [95% CI] = -0.02 [-0.21 to 0.16]; I2 = 2%).
Conclusion: Adding MT to exercise interventions for the management of RCRSP is not more effective than exercise alone for pain and function in adult patients.
Paraskevopoulos E, Plakoutsis G, Chronopoulos E, Maria P. Effectiveness of Combined Program of Manual Therapy and Exercise Vs Exercise Only in Patients With Rotator Cuff-related Shoulder Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Sports Health. 2023 Sep-Oct;15(5):727-735. doi: 10.1177/19417381221136104. Epub 2022 Dec 14. PMID: 36517977; PMCID: PMC10467476.
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The Learning Curve - The RMTAO Education Series
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The Learning Curve - The RMTAO Education Series
The Learning Curve provides education to massage therapists in a variety of hands-on workshops and lecture-based seminars across Ontario focused on three main areas - Competency, Business, and Modality. The Continuing Education Program is designed to help massage therapists increase their knowledge base to continuously improve for both their own personal success and that of the client.
Click here for more information about the courses offered by the RMTAO.
Surface Anatomy: Upper
June 9, 2024 - Medix College, Toronto
Oncology Massage: Integrating Massage Therapy into Breast Cancer Rehabilitation
June 12, 2024 - Virtual
Massage Therapy and Post-Acute Infection Syndromes: Keeping Up with the PAISs
June 13, 2024 - Virtual
TMJ and TMD 101
June 16, 2024 - Medix College, Toronto
Owning Your Boundaries
June 19, 2024 - Virtual
Financial Planning for Business Owners
June 26, 2024 - Virtual
Mastering Social Media Marketing with Canva: Creating Engaging Content for Brand Awareness
July 16, 2024 - Virtual
Fibromyalgia - An Evidence-Based Guide to a Mysterious Disorder
August 20, 2024 - Virtual
Making a Pain Assessment
September 10, 2024 - Virtual
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Upcoming Community-Based Networks and Related Activities
The RMTAO has created a feature on RMTAO.com for Community-Based Networks. Members and non-members can access information about the latest upcoming network activities on our list of upcoming events! Don't see a Community-Based Network near you? You can contact Angela Paton at angela@rmtao.com to learn more about starting one.
London Community-Based Network
Date: May 5, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual
Topic: RMT Sunday morning chat hosted by the London Area CBN/Community Based Network; all Ontario RMTs welcome. Students and new grads too!
You are welcome to lurk; no one is put on the spot, video optional. Monthly chat for RMTs, grads and students, don't have to be an RMTAO member! Feel free to add topics or ask questions ahead of time (email or via the Facebook event page). Those who are outside of the London area are welcome.
Zoom link here
RSVP: Dani Faucher danifaucher.rmt@gmail.com
Future meeting date: June 2, July 7, Sept 1, Oct 6, Dec 1, 2024
Simcoe County Community-Based Network
Date: May 14, 2024
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Location: Virtual
Topic: ZOOM breakfast club chats. Kick back in your jammies with a hot beverage and join us for a Zoom chat. Zoom link here
RSVP: Jenn Hewitt jenniferhewittrmt@gmail.com
Future meeting date: May 29
Durham Region Community-Based Network
Date: May 24, 2024
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Whitby Public Library - Central Library,
405 Dundas St W, Whitby, ON L1N 6A1 Meet at the second floor fireplace.
Topic: TBD
RSVP: Catherine Roe cate.roe1@gmail.com
Guelph Community-Based Network
Date: May 27, 2024
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Guelph Symposium Restaurant & Lounge
304 Stone Rd W Guelph
Topic: TBD
RSVP: Renata DeForest renatadrmt@gmail.com
Future dates: June 17
Cambridge Community-Based Network
Date: May 29, 2024
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Waters Massage Therapy
242 Water Street North, Cambridge
Topic: TBD
RSVP: Darren Nixon dlnrmt@rogers.com
Windsor Community-Based Network
Date: June 9, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual
Topic: TBD
RSVP: Brittany Wistuba britt_wistuba@hotmail.com
Future meeting date: Sept 8, Nov 10
Hamilton Community-Based Network
Date: June 23, 2024
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Location: Williams Cafe, 47 Discovery Dr. Hamilton, L8L 8K4
Topics: TBD
RSVP: Radha Rampersaud rrampersaud1964@gmail.com
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How to make conversations with aging parents a little less awkward. Offer loved ones facing downsizing, the loss of their licence a sense of agency.
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