Jamie Johnston 0:12 You’re listening to the massage therapist Development Initiative. I’m Jamie Johnston. Eric Purves 0:17 And I’m Eric Purves. This is a podcast by massage therapists for massage therapists. Jamie Johnston 0:22 Our objective is to simplify how to be a more evidence informed practitioner. Let’s dig into this episode. Well, it seems as though the pandemic is over, I’m sure there’s still repercussions of going on in different places. But one big repercussion of it in the last year for both of us was how it affected our mental health and some other aspects of life. So we t ..read more

    Jamie Johnston 0:12 You’re listening to the massage therapist Development Initiative. I’m Jamie Johnston. Eric Purves 0:17 And I’m Eric Purves. This is a podcast by massage therapists for massage therapists. Jamie Johnston 0:22 Our objective is to simplify how to be a more evidence informed practitioner. Let’s dig into this episode of education, education, education, I was told as a young man that you say things three times as a repetition for emphasis. However, when we look at the emphasis that is being put on our education, by many of the conferences and things that we see acr ..read more

  James Johnston RMT 0:12 You’re listening to the massage therapist Development Initiative. I’m Jamie Johnston. Eric Purves 0:17 And I’m Eric Purvis. This is a podcast by massage therapists for massage therapists. James Johnston RMT 0:22 Our objective is to simplify how to be a more evidence informed practitioner. Let’s dig into this episode. So often said that you can’t judge a book by its cover. And I think you could say the same when it comes to research. We’re going to look at a paper today called myofascial release for chronic low back pain, a systematic review and meta analysis. An ..read more

Several years ago, I started this blog, and the whole reason was to be of service to my community of like-minded Massage Therapists while trying to educate and lift up the profession.  Well, the last year has been really tough to do that, and I feel like I’ve kind of let you down as a reader of this blog.  So, I thought I would share why.  Like it has been for most of us, this pandemic over the past couple of years hit hard, but I truly didn’t understand how hard it hit me and ended up going through some health issues if any of you were going through something similar, I’d love ..read more

  Jamie Johnston 0:12 You’re listening to the massage therapist Development Initiative. I’m Jamie Johnston. And I’m Eric Purvis. This is a podcast by massage therapists for massage therapists. Our objective is to simplify how to be a more evidence informed practitioner. Let’s dig into this episode. As somebody who just turned 47 years old, I can’t quite remember things that happened 40 years ago, but the biopsychosocial model of pain has been around for about 40 years now. And it’s very important for us to take a look at anything like this and understand what changes have taken place in ..read more

  Jamie Johnston 0:12 You’re listening to the massage therapist Development Initiative. I’m Jamie Johnston. Eric Purves 0:17 And I’m Eric Purves. This is a podcast by massage therapists for massage therapists. Jamie Johnston 0:22 Our objective is to simplify how to be a more evidence informed practitioner. Let’s dig into this episode. We’ve been talking lots lately about continuing education seems to be a bit of a theme with us. And talked recently about how the standards are changing for us here in British Columbia. And while that seems to only affect us, I think it’s going to have a wi ..read more

    Jamie Johnston 0:12 You’re listening to the massage therapist Development Initiative. I’m Jamie Johnston. And I’m Eric Purves. This is a podcast by massage therapists for massage therapists. Our objective is to simplify how to be a more evidence-informed practitioner. Let’s dig into this episode. Sometimes things in our profession change, sometimes for the better sometimes for the worse. And sometimes we’re not sure if it’s for the better or the worse. This is one of those instances where I know that this is instituted with other colleges, but for our college in British Columbia ..read more

Jamie Johnston 0:12 You’re listening to the massage therapist Development Initiative. I’m Jamie Johnston. And I’m Eric Purves. This is a podcast by massage therapists for massage therapists. Our objective is to simplify how to be a more evidence informed practitioner, let’s dig into this episode. Jamie Johnston 0:33 There are times when your beliefs get challenged. And there are times that you have to change the way that you do things. I’ve been seeing, we’ve been seeing lots online lately, with people that are going back and forth between what the Noy group is saying and what other research ..read more

It seems there has been a real backlash against evidence-based practice (EBP) of late and part of the issue, I believe, is that there is sometimes a very real MISUNDERSTANDING about what evidence-based practice is and is not. This backlash in part seems to revolve around the idea that EBP is too restrictive and hasn’t got all the answers and that some folk CAN place too much emphasis on ‘evidence’ in their practice, perhaps not with enough critical appraisal leading to rigid and inflexible perspectives.  We do, in my opinion, have to acknowledge that an overly empirical perspective can ..read more

  Jamie Johnston 0:12 You’re listening to the massage therapist Development Initiative. I’m Jamie Johnston. Eric Purves 0:17 And I’m Eric Purves. This is a podcast by massage therapists for massage therapists. Jamie Johnston 0:22 Our objective is to simplify how to be a more evidence-informed practitioner, let’s dig into this episode. Jamie Johston 0:33 It’s often been said that, you know, you’re doing something right when you’re making other people mad. And I don’t mean that in a in an aggressive way that you’re going out and attempting to make people mad. But when you’re putting out co ..read more