Assessment & medications

I know I said that last week would be the last post for Intermediate massage for a while, but there are two things that I need to work through with you.

Firstly, the Intermediate massage assessment has been posted.
Have a look through the assessment & make sure you understand what you'll be assessed on. The most significant thing to realise which I talked about briefly during an elluminate session week before last was that you will need to be medication savvy. In your assessment if a client presents with a set of medications you must be able to determine the actions of these medications and the implications of these to massage practice.

Given that there are no good resources for this which relate medications to massage practice, I've suggested that it's a good idea for us to develop a quick reference sheet.

Some people have said that they would be happy to learn how to edit wikipages so that we could build a page on Wikipedia. Others have said that they would prefer to build the content on a Google doc. The wiki page option seems clearly better in the long term because the material that you create can be developed on on an ongoing basis which is clearly what is needed. If this is in the too hard basket for you, I've created a google document which you can use in the meantime. I'll then transfer the content to the wikipage.

There are free wiki-editing workshops which are run from time to time at Otago Polytechnic. I'll keep you posted as to when they are.

Here is a link to Massage, medications and interactions. On this page you will find a link to the process you should go through to find out about medications, and a link to the wiki page with content. There are also videos describing how to use and contribute to the project.

Here's a link to the Google document.