Vision of Specialization for Registered Massage Therapists

One page on PainSci cites Hall 2009: Does Massage Therapy Work?

PainSci notes on Hall 2009:

A publication of the Therapists Association of British Columbia, with some nicely phrased assessments of the state of the massage therapy profession.

This page is part of the PainScience BIBLIOGRAPHY, which contains plain language summaries of thousands of scientific papers & others sources. It’s like a highly specialized blog. A few highlights:

• Placebo analgesia in physical and psychological interventions: Systematic review and meta-analysis of three-armed trials. Hohenschurz-Schmidt 2024 Eur J Pain.
• Recovery trajectories in common musculoskeletal complaints by diagnosis contra prognostic phenotypes. Aasdahl 2021 BMC Musculoskelet Disord.
• Cannabidiol (CBD) products for pain: ineffective, expensive, and with potential harms. Moore 2023 J Pain.
• Moderators of the effect of therapeutic exercise for knee and hip osteoarthritis: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis. Holden 2023 The Lancet Rheumatology.
• Inciting events associated with lumbar disc herniation. Suri 2010 Spine J.