Massage Therapy
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Category: Physical Therapy Professional Forum
Forum Name: General Discussion
Forum Description: General discussion for physical therapists, physical therapist assistants and other health care professionals.
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Topic: Massage Therapy
Posted By: Ask a PT
Subject: Massage Therapy
Date 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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