Part of the professional responsibility all health-care practitioners includes public education. While Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) continues to grow in popularity, a large majority remain unfamiliar with services available to them and their benefits. The practice of massage therapy is the assessment of the soft tissue and joints of the body and the treatment and prevention of physical dysfunction and pain of the soft tissue and joints by manipulation to develop, maintain, rehabilitate or augment physical function, or relieve pain (Massage Therapy Act, 1991). Massage therapy is currently regulated in only 3 Canadian provinces: British Columbia, New Foundland and…

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