Class 1 Flashcards
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.
1919
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?
100,000 BC (or 6,000 BC)
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?
1870s - 1930s
A health care facility using a large variety of manual therapies including massage and hydrotherapy in the 1870s
Battle Creek Sanitarium
Who was the German man living in the Netherlands that was a son of a butcher who was interested in anatomy?
George Metzger
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.
1994
Manual therapies start to become popular again, to the point of becoming mainstream again. What time period is this referring to?
1980s
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?
1930s
When did Per Ling study and document theories around the ranges of motion of joints in Swedon?
1830s
A regulatory body for massage therapy in Ontario with a goal in mind of protecting the public
CMTO
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?
1920s
What year was there a change to the way massage therapy was regulated in Ontario, with inclusion in the Regulated Health Professions Act?
1991
Why are healthcare regulatory bodies called Colleges?
They represent a body of colleagues
Who ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan in the 1870s?
John Harvey Kellogg
A regulatory health body in Ontario is referred to as a ________
College
When was the Massage Therapy Act of Ontario created?
1991
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.
Drugless Practitioners Act
What does CMTO stand for?
The College of Massage Therapists of Ontario
How many regulatory health bodies are there in Ontario?
26
What does RMTAO stand for?
Registered Massage Therapists Association of Ontario
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?
1850s
Who has the ultimate authority for Massage Therapy in Ontario?
The people of Ontario because healthcare can have a huge impact on provincial elections
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?
1917 (World War I in Europe)
An act that consists of 26 self governing health professions in Ontario
RHPA
Who governs Massage Therapy in Ontario?
Massage therapists themselves because all regulatory health bodies are governed by councils made up of members of that profession
A professional association representing RMTs in Ontario, almost like a club
RMTAO
Explain how healthcare works across Canada?
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.
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 ________?
Self Governance
What does RHPA stand for?
Regulated Health Professions Act
