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massage, should it be considered a part of the health care field?
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Posted 4 months ago Massage has huge benifits to add to the healthcare field. Even the schooling is tough to be a massage therapist. The courses to study are anatomy and kinesiology and anatomy and physiology, pathology, business marketing, ethics, and many more. So why should we treat it as an outsider to medicine when many people use it as an alternitive to medicine? |
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| Posted 2 months ago Honestly, I believe there are two reasons why massage and other similar fields have not been accepted in to "health care," with open arms. One is fundamental, and the largest hurdle. Put simply insurance companies view massage as a luxury and, as with many procedures that are already firmly under the umbrella of healthcare, they simply will not pay for them unless there is an urgent and usually life-threatening need for them. Second and more complex is that just like Osteopathic medicine has been in the past, and Chiropracty is still to a large point (although there you will find even me divided... lets just say if I see a chiropracter who insists on X-rays and MRIs before they go fiddling around with someones spine then I won't view them as a quack) massage is not considered by many Doctors and healthcare professionals to be a medical procedure. I think that it will take persistance on the part of individuals like yourself, as well as a distinct and well defined overarching organizational structure to the field for massage to be more universally accepted. You made the types of points in your posts about the medical benefits of massage that need to be reenforced in the medical community. Without things being put in their terms doctors still have a gut reaction to classify things as 'Voodoo,' medicine. And not entirely without good reason. I have seen many an individual with slipped disks who allow their chiropracters to manipulate their necks in manners which would make any neuro-surgeon cringe as they silently prayed that the individual comes to their office before they wind up as a parapalegic. Keep pushing the medical benefits, and eventually you will find enough doctors to side with you that the insurance companies will become a viable hurdle, rather than the giant wall they are now. |