Work on the Massage Therapy Educational Resources project is coming along.

There are now some good quality resources under many of the categories. Here’s a hand-picked selection

• Study skills (both academic and computer-related)
• A History of Massage in New Zealand
• Effects of deep tissue massage
• Legislative Acts which establish boundaries of massage practice in New Zealand
• Subjective assessment protocol for massage therapy
• Objective assessment methods for massage therapy
• Local Adaptation Syndrome
• Stress management

At present it’s a project of one. I’ve decided this semester that it makes sense for me to continue teaching the online aspects of the programme (apart from Bioscience), and to let our other staff concentrate on the F2F teaching.

I’m hopeful that in the future other massage educators will get involved in this collaborative development, but at present this is not happening. Hopefully the quality of resources available through the project
will encourage people to get involved.