Pain Symposium Fundraiser

Posted:Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Massage Therapy Foundation
Pain Symposium Fundraiser
Pain Management and the Opioid Crisis:
How Massage Therapy Can Help


Sponsored By:
American Massage Therapy Association – Maryland Chapter
Community College of Baltimore County, School of Health Professions

Join the AMTA Maryland Chapter for a pain symposium intended to bring awareness to the impact that massage therapy professionals can have on the current opioid crisis and the quest for non-pharmacological methods of pain management.

The symposium will bring together medical professionals, massage therapists, educators, research advocates, and government officials so that they can better understand their roles in this epidemic and begin to open the lines of communication to develop meaningful work in helping individuals that are living with chronic pain in a more effective way.

Proceeds from this event benefit the Massage Therapy Foundation

  • Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018
  • Time: 9:00am-6:00pm, Registration begins at 8:30am
  • Location: Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), Essex Campus; Administration Building, 7201 Rossville Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21237
  • Cost: $100 donation per person to MTF before October 11, 2018, $125 after October 11, 2018 ($25 late registration fee). Lunch is included.
  • School Passes available; please email lgorschboth@ccbcmd.edu for more information

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Schedule of Information Sessions:

  • Keynote Address (30 minutes) –
  • Session 1: Mechanisms of Pain Medications, Addictions, and the State of the Opioid Crisis (45 minutes)
  • MORNING BREAK
  • Session 2: The Mystery of Pain (90 minutes)
  • LUNCH BREAK (Lunch included; please email lgorschboth@ccbcmd.edu if you have food allergies)
  • Session 3: Pain Research (90 minutes)
  • AFTERNOON BREAK
  • Session 4: Interprofessional Education Model and Competencies (60 minutes)
  • MINI BREAK
  • Session 5: Overview of Certifications for Massage Therapists– Identifying Appropriate Credentials of Massage Therapy Professionals (Includes discussion of Maryland’s two-tier system) (60 minutes)
  • Session 6: Question and Answer period (30 minutes)
  • Closing Address (15 minutes) –

Total Educational Content:  7 hours (7 CE Credit hours for massage therapists, pending NCBTMB approval)

Speakers:

Robin B. Anderson, BA, LMT, BCTMB, CEAS
Trustee, Massage Therapy Foundation
Program Director, Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) Massage Therapy Program

Robin has been practicing massage therapy for 12 years.  Of those years she has been an educator for 8 of them. Robin has been the Program Director or CCBC’s Massage Therapy Program for almost 3 years. Robin is Board Certified, a Certified Ergonomic Assessment Specialist and a Board Member for the MTF.  Robin is currently working on her Master’s degree in Education, which will allow her to combine her loves of teaching and research to elevate massage therapy practice one student at a time.

Brent Jackson, M.Ed., BS, LMT
Trustee, Massage Therapy Foundation
Program Director, Central Carolina Technical College (CCTC) Massage Therapy Program

Brent Jackson is a licensed massage therapist and the academic program manager for massage therapy at Central Carolina Technical College. Brent designed and implemented the first hospital-based, clinical practicum for massage therapy education for the state of South Carolina.  In conjunction with NCBTMB, he has created the Integrative Health Certificate to provide evidence of his students having received additional training, both practical and in the classroom, in healthcare settings.  Brent has won multiple teaching awards and currently volunteers as a Massage Therapy Foundation Board of Trustee.

Daniel Mansour, Pharm.D., BCGP, FASCP
Interprofesional Coordinator, University of Maryland Pharmacy School

Daniel Mansour completed his doctor of pharmacy degree at the University of Maryland and his specialized residency training in geriatrics at the VA Medical Center in Minnesota. He has practiced in many medical settings and has collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to meet the medication related needs of older adults. His clinical research initiatives have focused on improving the care of patients with polypharmacy, dementia and pain which led to publications in several peer reviewed journals and book chapters. Dr. Mansour is the interprofessional clinical coordinator at the Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging and has taught students from the many professional schools including, dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and social work. He is board certified in geriatric pharmacy, is a fellow and has served as a past president of the Maryland American Society of Consultant Pharmacists. Cognizant of the many challenges that patients may face in their treatment journeys, he always factors into his assessments alternative and complementary therapies, such as massage therapy, to treat pain for his patients.

Doug Nelson, LMT, BCTMB
President, Massage Therapy Foundation

Douglas Nelson began his career in massage therapy in 1977, and he maintains a very active clinical practice. His particular interest has been the role of soft tissue in performance, serving as a neuromuscular consultant to teams in the NBA and NFL, in addition to dance companies and high level musicians. He is the President of BodyWork Associates, a massage therapy clinic in Champaign, IL. Established in 1982, the clinic has two locations and a staff of eighteen therapists. His teaching institute, NMT MidWest, Inc., provides about one hundred trainings annually in Precision Neuromuscular Therapy™ across the USA and abroad. Doug is a guest lecturer at the University of Illinois Medical School, the Department of Family Medicine, and the Dance Department. Doug has been the recipient of numerous awards in his field, most recently the 2013 Massage Therapy Educator of the Year and the 2015 Pioneer Award from the Illinois Chapter of the American Massage Therapy Association.

Rationale:

The current opioid crisis in health care is creating more interest in integrative treatment methods for managing pain.  Massage therapy has been identified as being very effective for pain management and medical facilities such as hospitals, infusion centers, and hospice care are beginning to seek qualified practitioners to work with their patients; however, many may not know what strides have been made within the massage therapy industry to strategically position massage therapists with skills to meet these needs in the medical arena.  The purpose of this event is to help bring together medical professionals and massage therapists within the state of Maryland and the Mid Atlantic region to help them understand the roles that each have in making a significant contribution to pain management for patients creating an indelible impact on the opioid.  Attending this event will help to deepen the knowledge of medical professionals about massage therapy through the introduction of current massage therapy research on pain, create awareness from the pharmacological standpoint on how opioids have become such an epidemic, and explore how we can teach all professionals about the required competencies and expectations of working effectively as part of interdisciplinary collaborative team in the health care arena that massage therapists need to be successful in clinical practice.

Learning Objectives/Outcomes:

At the conclusion of this seminar, attendees will be able to:

  1. Evaluate current trends in massage therapy research, practice, and education and its potential impact on the opioid crisis and interprofessional collaborative health care.
  2. Identify and explain the four core competencies of interprofessional educational (IPE) model for health care professionals.
  3. Implement components of the IPE model in the classroom and clinical practice.
  4. Create opportunities for massage therapy students and practitioners to work within interdisciplinary health care teams.

References:

Academic Consortium for Complimentary & Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC), (2011). Competencies for Optimal Practice in Integrative Environments. https://nexusipe.org/informing/resource-center/competencies-optimal-practice-integrated-environments-0

American Interprofessional Health Collaborative website, https://aihc-us.org/program-resources

Interprofessional Education Collaborative, (2016). Core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice: 2016 update.  Washington, DC: Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC).

Forman, D, Jones, M, & Thistlewaite, J, (2014). Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.