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Need to upgrade your Charting Skills, as required by your College, as soon as possible?

Charting Skills for Massage Therapists: The Self-Study Workbook takes you step-by-step through a comprehensive learning process to augment your current skills and help you meet your regulatory requirements in record-keeping:

How Will You Benefit?

  • Examine your current charting practices - what's good and what's missing

  • Look at common problems encountered in taking a case history...and solutions to these problems

  • Study the Ontario regulations for record-keeping

  • Learn why it's important to screen for "yellow and red flags"

  • Explore how to document relevant assessment findings - postural distortion, range-of-motion and palpation findings

  • Save time with new charting skills that are detail-effective and time-efficient

  • Discover a three-level method for creating good treatment plans

  • Determine a person's level of pain and disability with comprehensive questionnaires

  • Read how palpation can become an objective, measurable finding

Review chapters from the workbook

Why Buy the Book?

Meet your regulatory obligations - The self-study workbook allows you to improve your Charting Skills at your pace, in the comfort of your home or office.  And, when you send back the properly completed case studies, you will receive confirmation of your successful completion of the course!

Practise "preventative" care - Not sure how your charting will stand up against an audit, or for use in a medical-legal report?  Boost your Charting Skills now before you need them!

Benefit from Experience - I've been teaching this content since 1994.  It's gone through many revisions and improvements.  You're buying a highly-developed system!

Save Time and Money - Charting Skills will teach you how to record your case history and assessment effectively, and with less time and effort.  No more spending hours at the end of the day completing your charts!

Charting Skills for Massage Therapists: A Self-Study Workbook - $59.95 plus GST.

The Table of Contents

  • Introduction

  • Why Chart Anyway?

  • How to Use this Workbook

  • Start From Where You Are

  • Chapter One: The Case History

  • Why take a case history?

  • What Are Your Problems in Taking a Case History? 

  • Regulations for Record Keeping

  • The Case History / Intake Template

  • The Dimensions of Pain

  • The Presence of Yellow and Red Flags

  • Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

  • Chapter Two: Performing a Thorough and Comprehensive Assessment

  • Advantages of using the Assessment/Treatment template:

  • Postural Distortion: Charting Made Simple

  • Charting Range of Motion (ROM)Findings

  • The Short on Short Hand

  • Assessment / Treatment Template: Completed Example

  • Chapter 3: Palpation Findings and Forming a Clinical Opinion

  • Identify, Classify and Qualify Your Palpation Findings

  • Forming a Clinical Opinion

  • Chapter 4: Treatment Plans / Completing the Treatment Record

  • A Framework for Treatment Plans

  • Treatments, Outcomes and Recommendations

  • Chapter 5: Pain Questionnaires and Special Templates for Insurance

  • Chapter 6: Case Studies / Labs

  • Chapter 7:  Closing: Palpation as an Objective, Measurable Finding

Complete the two case studies and earn 3 CEUs for the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario Quality Assurance Program.  Click here.

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Since (manual therapists) are now ‘first contact’ clinicians, we have assumed greater responsibilities.  While those interested in manipulation and allied treatments energetically improve their competence in the various techniques and applications, we might profitably spend a little time considering what we are doing all this for.

...Pain distribution might confuse unwary or overconfident therapists, who may assume familiarity with a syndrome they recognize and then perhaps find themselves confronting the tip of a very different kind of iceberg.

- Physiotherapists N. J. Petty. and A. P. Moore: Neuromusculoskeletal Examination and Assessment.

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