Massage Therapy

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   Our user asked "What is your opinion about massage therapy and massage therapists as a compliment modality to physical therapy? How do you feel that PTs and MTs compliment and/or differ in their treatments?"

Ask a PT Response: "As a PT we do have some training in massage therapy which we utilize in conjunction with our services. There are continuing education courses we can go to to obtain further training that utilizes a manual approach. Given the diagnosis and the problem that a patient is having, soft tissue mobiization is utilized as treatment. Massage therapy alone is not considered a skilled service. Given the condition and circumstances involved for a patient seeing a massage therapist may be beneficial in order to help a patient maintain the gains that they have acquired from physical therapy services. I hope this answers your questions. For further input please feel free to post this question on our message board. Thank you for visiting CyberPT."

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Ask a PT Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: Jul 07 2008 Status: Offline Points: 954	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ask a PT Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Massage Therapy Posted: Jul 07 2008 at 11:58pm
	Our user asked "What is your opinion about massage therapy and massage therapists as a compliment modality to physical therapy? How do you feel that PTs and MTs compliment and/or differ in their treatments?" Ask a PT Response: "As a PT we do have some training in massage therapy which we utilize in conjunction with our services. There are continuing education courses we can go to to obtain further training that utilizes a manual approach. Given the diagnosis and the problem that a patient is having, soft tissue mobiization is utilized as treatment. Massage therapy alone is not considered a skilled service. Given the condition and circumstances involved for a patient seeing a massage therapist may be beneficial in order to help a patient maintain the gains that they have acquired from physical therapy services. I hope this answers your questions. For further input please feel free to post this question on our message board. Thank you for visiting CyberPT."

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