Share Your Story for Massage Therapy Awareness Week
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Massage Therapy Awareness Week is October 24-30, 2021, and this year to celebrate the RMTAO will be featuring profiles of several patients who have greatly benefited from massage therapy treatments, to highlight the diverse injuries, conditions and populations that can benefit from massage therapy.
Massage therapy is beneficial to help people recover from an illness or injury, manage the physical symptoms of mental health issues, remain active, mobile and pain free, and improve their quality of life.
Many people are aware of some of the benefits of massage therapy for conditions like low back pain. However, there is less awareness of some other benefits of massage therapy, including the benefits of massage therapy to help people with cancer cope with their symptoms, to relieve the physical symptoms of anxiety and depression, to ensure people in physically demanding jobs can continue working and to help people recover more quickly from surgery.
Patients we hope to highlight likely chose massage therapy for a wide variety of reasons, and come from diverse patient populations. What they will all have in common will be their hopes that massage therapy can help them relieve pain and discomfort, as well as help them keep active and continue doing the activities they love. These patients have benefited from massage therapy in ways the average person is likely unaware of.
The benefits of massage therapy are supported by research, which shows that massage therapy can help people relieve their pain and improve their function. Registered Massage Therapists (RMTs) are regulated health professionals and have the education and training needed to play an important role in a health care team. RMTs assess a patient’s condition and create a treatment plan based on the patient’s concerns, needs, and goals. Many people are unaware of the diverse benefits of massage therapy, and we hope to raise awareness through the patients we highlight during Massage Therapy Awareness Week.
This Massage Therapy Awareness Week, we will be highlighting the different ways that massage therapy can help people improve their health, and inviting people to #AskYourRMT how massage therapy can help by sharing our Massage Therapy Awareness Week posts on their social media channels.
If you have a story to share about your experience with massage therapy, contact Laura Fixman, Manager of Communications, at laura@rmtao.com