The 2010 Highlighting Massage Therapy in Complementary and Integrative Medicine C

介绍(申请人提供)：会议的目标是：(1)向从业者、研究人员和教育工作者介绍最近关于按摩和相关手法疗法的临床和机械研究；(2)鼓励将手法疗法研究转化为更有效的临床实践和临床培训，并将临床观察和关注的问题转化为新的研究途径，以及(3)促进手法治疗师和CIM研究人员之间的合作和智力交流，以发展富有成效的伙伴关系，并确定进一步研究的丰富领域。这些目标将通过主题演讲、小组讨论、体验研讨会、海报会议、研究演示和有组织的网络机会来实现。重点会议将召集三位观众：手动治疗师、教育工作者和来自不同手动治疗背景的CIM研究人员。会议将邀请CIM研究人员与从业者、教育工作者和其他研究人员讨论他们的研究结果，并向研究社区通报当前的技术、关注的问题和临床医生的观察。会议还将提高手动治疗师和教育者的研究素养，并增强与会者将研究成果转化为临床决策的能力。这次会议将有助于人们了解关于手动疗法的最新研究，这些研究往往是分散的，难以组织。在一个越来越多地使用按摩作为补充医疗的环境中，本次会议将主办关于手动治疗对公共健康的贡献的有组织的讨论。 公共卫生相关性：本申请中提出的会议将通过深化手动治疗师的研究素养和翻译能力，促进公共卫生，导致更多循证治疗。这次会议还将有助于催化更具临床相关性的CIM研究机构，并通过召集来自高度不同背景的研究人员，将减少重复研究工作，并增加人工治疗的总体证据基础。最后，本次会议将主持讨论，直接聚焦于按摩和相关手动疗法的公共卫生潜力，这是世界上消费最广泛的补充和替代医学形式之一。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objectives of the conference are to: (1 Present recent clinical and mechanistic studies on massage and related manual therapies to practitioners, researchers and educators; (2 Encourage the translation of manual therapy research into more efficacious clinical practice and clinical training, and the translation of clinical observations and concerns into new avenues of research, and (3 Facilitate collaboration and intellectual exchange between and among manual therapists and CIM researchers, to develop productive partnerships and identify fertile areas of further research. These objectives will be achieved through keynote addresses, panel discussions, experiential workshops, poster sessions, research presentations, and structured opportunities for networking. The Highlighting conference will convene three audiences: manual therapists, educators, and CIM researchers from a diverse range of manual therapy backgrounds. The conference will engage CIM researchers in discussions of their research findings with practitioners, educators and fellow researchers, and it will inform the research community about current techniques, concerns, and observations of clinicians. The conference will also increase the research literacy of manual therapists and educators and enhance the capacity of attendees to translate research findings into clinical decision-making. The conference will help make accessible the latest research on manual therapies, which tends to be scattered and difficult to marshal. In an environment of increasing use of massage as a complementary medical treatment, this conference will host structured discussions on the contributions that manual therapy can make to the public health. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The conference proposed in this application will contribute to the public health by deepening the research literacy and translational competency of manual therapists, leading to more evidence-based treatment. This conference will also help catalyze a more clinically relevant body of CIM research and, by convening researchers from highly diverse backgrounds, will reduce duplicative research efforts and increase the overall evidence base of manual therapy. Finally, this conference will host discussions directly focused on the public health potential of massage and related manual therapies, which are among the most widely consumed forms of complementary and alternative medicine in the world.