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Making connections: Foundational embryology and developmental biology for massage therapists

What does something in our world as everyday as a tortoiseshell cat have to do with development and genetics?

 

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This e-Book provides a comprehensive foundation in embryology for massage therapists. Completing the material in this e-Book will give the student a better grounding and more thorough understanding of the client bodies we work with underneath our hands, as well as of the diversity of life in the world around us. This material is prerequisite knowledge for massage educational objectives, as outlined by various stakeholders in the following table.

 

 

 

Massage educational objectives addressed by this e-Book

Guidelines document Learning objective
College of Massage Therapists of British Columbia (CMTBC) Guidelines for Foundational Knowledge Objective
Inter-Jurisdictional Entry-to-Practice Competency Profile for Massage Therapists (British Columbia, Newfoundland & Labrador, Ontario, and Alberta) Objective
ITEC qualifications: International Objective
ITEC qualifications: UK Objective
Massage & Bodywork Licensing Examination (MBLEx) Content Outline Objective
Massage Therapy Body of Knowledge (MTBoK) Objective
Massage Therapy Competency Standards (College of Massage Therapists of Ontario) Objective
National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage (NCETM) Content Outline Objective
National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCETMB) Content Outline Objective
National Certification for Advanced Practice (NCAP) test specifications report Objective

 

 

 
 
 

Massage educational objectives addressed by this e-Book

Guidelines document Learning objective
College of Massage Therapists of British Columbia (CMTBC) Guidelines for Foundational Knowledge
  • Epithelial tissue
    • origins of epithelial tissue
  • Connective tissue classifications
    • embryonic
    • mesenchyme
  • Define and describe fetal circulation
  • Fetal circulatory components
    • Developmental heart defects
      • septal defects
      • pulmonary valvular stenosis
      • transposition of vessels with septal defect
      • dextrocardia
      • tetralogy of Fallot
      • patent ductus arterosis
      • coarctation of the aorta
ITEC qualifications: International Objective
ITEC qualifications: UK Objective
Massage & Bodywork Licensing Examination (MBLEx) Content Outline Objective
Massage Therapy Body of Knowledge (MTBoK) Objective
National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage (NCETM) Content Outline Objective
National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCETMB) Content Outline Objective
National Certification for Advanced Practice (NCAP) test specifications report Objective

 

 

 

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