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Latest Soft Tissue Therapy Poll
Archived Poll Results (sorted oldest to most recent)
1. What is your favorite technique used in soft tissue therapy?
- Frictions - 23.07%
- Tissue Tension - 38.46%
- Functional Fascial Taping ® - 7.69%
- Trigger Point Therapy - 30.77%
2. What do you believe frictions actually do?
- Break up scar tissue - 14.29%
- Mobilise scar tissue and adhesions - 61.90%
- Create an inflammatory response - 14.29%
- Desensitise a hyperirritable focal point - 9.52%
3. What is your preferred name for our industry (primary care rather than relaxation)?
- Remedial Massage - 14.29%
- Myotherapy - 3.57%
- Soft Tissue Therapy - 75%
- Body Worker - 0%
- Masseur - 3.57%
- Musculoskeletal Therapist - 3.57%
4. Our minimum education should go to a degree for what reason?
- Increase educational standards - 18.52%
- Increase professional reputation - 37.04%
- Increase research opportunities - 11.11%
- Shouldn?t go to a degree - 33.33%
5. Where do most of your professional referrals come from?
- General Practitioners - 25.93%
- Sports Physicians/Doctors - 18.52%
- Physiotherapists - 11.11%
- Gymnasiums/Fitness leaders - 22.22%
- Osteopaths - 0%
- Chiropractors - 11.11%
- Rehabilitation Consultants (third party insurance) - 11.11%
6. Should our association be clearly divided into the following three categories: Pain and injury management therapists; Energy workers; Relaxation therapists?
7. What should our associations focus on the most?
- Health Insurance Funds - 13.95%
- Medicare Rebates - 6.98%
- Education Standards - 69.77%
- GST Status - 9.30%
8. If registration was to come about (giving a policeable membership, one that you can be deregistered from and deemed unable to work by law, minimum education necessary to be registered), would you sit a practical and theoretical exam to gain entry?
- No, I have been in the industry for years and believe I have the necessary knowledge and skills - 9.30%
- Yes, I would do anything for a professional registration - 81.40%
- A registration isn't necessary - 9.30%
9. Do five day massage courses have any place in our industry?
- Yes. They meet a void for certain prospective therapists - 5.45%
- No. There is no place for therapists with this limited education - 83.64%
- Maybe. Only if they are in the ?relaxation? vocation of our industry - 10.91%
10. Do you believe that so-called third bedroom practices:
- Are a legitimate option for a professional practice and should be promoted - 35.29%
- Decrease our professional image and should be banned - 64.71%
11. What is your perception of the most valuable asset of our associations?
- Health insurance lobbying - 16.1%
- Policy development - 6.5%
- Educational development - 29%
- Vocational development - 16.1%
- I have no idea and just pay the money - 32.3%
12. When you finished your STT education, what do you believe you lacked in the most?
- Anatomy - 0%
- Pathology - 21.5%
- Assessment - 57%
- Technique Indication - 21.5%
13. What type of association would you prefer?
- Remedial and relaxation massage only - 13.6%
- Strictly remedial massage/soft tissue therapy only - 65.9%
- All encompassing (remedial, relaxation, eastern, shiatsu, energy) - 20.5%
14. Are Soft Tissue / Massage Therapists qualified enough to perform Dry Needling?
- No. Not enough baseline education to understand mechanisms, indications and contraindications - 25%
- Yes. They have enough anatomy and pathological knowledge to perform safely and successfully - 12.5%
- Only those with Diploma level education - 62.5%
15. Where does Bowen Therapy fit into our industry?
- It is a stand alone therapy and education process - 60.8%
- It should be a part of our undergrad process - 9.8%
- It should only be a post graduate course - 29.4%
16. Are we falling behind our peers?
- Yes, our education is not evolving to the level of our physical therapy peers - 26.5%
- No, we are advancing at the same speed as other industries - 22.4%
- Yes, we remain a cottage industry with little to no research, without professional growth - 44.9%
- We don't need to advance any further. Our skills and knowledge are adequate - 6.1%
17. Should Soft Tissue Therapists be prescribing foot orthotics?
- Why not. What could it hurt - 0%
- Definitely. We need to broaden our horizons - 6.6%
- Podiatrists do this. Why should we - 44.3%
- Maybe with adequate training 49.2%
18. Where do you work from?
- Home - 29.8%
- Remedial Massage Clinic (STT, Myo, Etc) - 46.8%
- Mobile - 8.5%
- Multidisciplinary Clinic (With Physio, Osteo, Chiro, Doctor, Other) -14.9%
19. Do you think a degree would enhance or hamper our industry?
- Enhance - 78.6%
- Hamper - 21.4%
20. Do the modalities of Kahuna, Thai and Lomi Lomi massage belong in our membership?
21. Are Australian Education Institutions producing competent Remedial Massage Therapists?
- They are doing a great job of meeting the competency standards and producing excellent students - 4.7%
- Only very few schools produce employable graduates - 39.1%
- The difference between schools teaching levels is vast and students differ immensely - 53.1%
- I don't know any school that produces a RMT that I would employ with confidence - 1.6%
- I don't know what a competent RMT is anyway - 1.6%
22. Are Australian associations adequately promoting massage therapy versus remedial massage therapy?
- No, they all ignore the difference - 50.0%
- Some try but are lost in the crowd of associations - 27.6%
- They wouldn?t know the difference - 15.5%
- They are doing a good job of promoting the difference - 6.9%
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