Class 1

Question 1

When did nurses return to Canada from Europe with great massage skills and experience? During this time, the government of Ontario also decided to regulate massage therapy for the first time under the Ontario Board of Regents. Regulation of other health modalities also largely dates from this period.

Answer 1

1919

Question 2

Massage is an innate human response to pain, so it has existed in every culture since the beginning of time. What time period is this referring to?

Answer 2

100,000 BC (or 6,000 BC)

Question 3

When is the start of the ‘Golden Age’ or ‘Hey-Day’ of manual therapies, such as massage, physiotherapy, naturopathy, homeopathy, and osteopathy, in North America,? When did this period last until?

Answer 3

1870s - 1930s

Question 4

A health care facility using a large variety of manual therapies including massage and hydrotherapy in the 1870s

Answer 4

Battle Creek Sanitarium

Question 5

Who was the German man living in the Netherlands that was a son of a butcher who was interested in anatomy?

Answer 5

George Metzger

Question 6

What year did our regulatory body, the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario, start operating? It is important to note that it takes a few years after the legislation is created before the organization is ready to start.

Answer 6

1994

Question 7

Manual therapies start to become popular again, to the point of becoming mainstream again. What time period is this referring to?

Answer 7

1980s

Question 8

Medicine and medications start to become more mainstream and effective (such as penicillin and antibiotics) and manual therapies start to fall out of popularity. What time period is this referring to?

Answer 8

1930s

Question 9

When did Per Ling study and document theories around the ranges of motion of joints in Swedon?

Answer 9

1830s

Question 10

A regulatory body for massage therapy in Ontario with a goal in mind of protecting the public

Answer 10

CMTO

Question 11

In response to regulation, massage therapists begin to feel the need for representation for their own interests and start to organize professional associations. What time period is this referring to?

Answer 11

1920s

Question 12

What year was there a change to the way massage therapy was regulated in Ontario, with inclusion in the Regulated Health Professions Act?

Answer 12

1991

Question 13

Why are healthcare regulatory bodies called Colleges?

Answer 13

They represent a body of colleagues

Question 14

Who ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan in the 1870s?

Answer 14

John Harvey Kellogg

Question 15

A regulatory health body in Ontario is referred to as a ________

Answer 15

College

Question 16

When was the Massage Therapy Act of Ontario created?

Answer 16

1991

Question 17

For some decades prior to 1991, massage therapy had been regulated by the Board of Directors of Masseurs under the ________________ . This was a major upgrade in the seriousness of how massage therapy was viewed as a health modality.

Answer 17

Drugless Practitioners Act

Question 18

What does CMTO stand for?

Answer 18

The College of Massage Therapists of Ontario

Question 19

How many regulatory health bodies are there in Ontario?

Answer 19

26

Question 20

What does RMTAO stand for?

Answer 20

Registered Massage Therapists Association of Ontario

Question 21

George Metzger codifies massage theory and describes 4 techniques and 4 principles through borrowing on work developed by others, including Per Ling. He uses French names for effleurage, petrissage, taptoment, frictions, and principles such as general-specific-general. This was the language of medicine at the time. In which time period did this occur?

Answer 21

1850s

Question 22

Who has the ultimate authority for Massage Therapy in Ontario?

Answer 22

The people of Ontario because healthcare can have a huge impact on provincial elections

Question 23

Canadian nurses were sent to England to be trained in massage and hydrotherapy. Ultimately they were performing thousands of treatments in a day to rehab injured soldiers to either put back into battle or get them ready to be shipped home. In which time period did this occur?

Answer 23

1917 (World War I in Europe)

Question 24

An act that consists of 26 self governing health professions in Ontario

Answer 24

RHPA

Question 25

Who governs Massage Therapy in Ontario?

Answer 25

Massage therapists themselves because all regulatory health bodies are governed by councils made up of members of that profession

Question 26

A professional association representing RMTs in Ontario, almost like a club

Answer 26

RMTAO

Question 27

Explain how healthcare works across Canada?

Answer 27

Healthcare in Canada is the individual responsibility of each separate province. Therefore it varies across the country because individual provinces make their own decisions based on their own needs.

Question 28

RMTs themselves have a role in creating Standards of Practice and influencing regulations that govern the profession they are in. The equivalent to this applies in most health professions, through their Colleges. This is an example of ________?

Answer 28

Self Governance

Question 29

What does RHPA stand for?

Answer 29

Regulated Health Professions Act