Charting
Skills for Massage Therapists:
The Self-Study Workbook
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
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.
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Need to upgrade your Charting Skills, as
required by your College, as soon as possible?