The 2010 Highlighting Massage Therapy in Complementary and Integrative Medicine C

描述（由申请人提供）：会议的目标是：（1）目前最近的临床和机械研究按摩和相关的手工疗法的从业者，研究人员和教育工作者;（2 鼓励将手法治疗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，以发展富有成效的合作伙伴关系，并确定进一步研究的肥沃领域。 这些目标将通过主旨演讲、小组讨论、经验讲习班、海报会议、研究报告和有组织的网络机会来实现。 突出会议将召集三个观众：手动治疗师，教育工作者和CIM研究人员从不同的手动治疗背景。会议将使CIM研究人员与从业人员，教育工作者和研究人员讨论他们的研究结果，并将向研究界通报当前的技术，关注点和临床医生的观察结果。 会议还将提高手工治疗师和教育工作者的研究素养，并提高与会者将研究成果转化为临床决策的能力。 这次会议将有助于使人们获得关于手工疗法的最新研究，这些研究往往是分散的，难以整理。 在越来越多地使用按摩作为补充医疗的环境中，本次会议将举办关于手工疗法对公共健康的贡献的结构化讨论。 公共卫生相关性：本申请中提出的会议将通过深化手工治疗师的研究素养和翻译能力，为公共卫生做出贡献，从而实现更多的循证治疗。 本次会议还将有助于促进更具临床相关性的CIM研究机构，并通过召集来自高度多样化背景的研究人员，减少重复研究工作，增加手动治疗的整体证据基础。 最后，本次会议将直接讨论按摩和相关手工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.