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Massage routines and protocols

The massage routines and protocols area is a repository of massage sequences that practitioners and researchers report they use. These come from the published research literature, community members, and from the web and other sources.

Guidance provided by the routines

Usability

Routines are rated for usability in one of four ways that indicate to the user how much guidance the routine provides from the instructions: 
  • Good to go: These are routines that are provided in enough detail that a practitioner or student can follow them exactly or almost exactly as written.

  • Partially specified: These are routines that have some detail provided, but require fill-in of other information before they are ready to be used by a student or practitioner. If you need guidance to use the routine, this would be a good thing to ask your teacher or your mentor about.

  • Suggestions: These are routines that provide a vague outline of how to proceed. There may be enough information for an experienced practitioner to riff off of, but a student might find that there is not enough information for guidance.

  • Mention: Massage is mentioned in the context of the article, but even an experienced practitioner would not find very much information to draw on about how to proceed.

In addition, POEM indicates:

  • Placeholders: These are links that are not yet populated, or are awaiting content.

Evidence level

POEM uses the levels of evidence from Evidence-Based Nursing at the Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago at the University of Illinois at Chicago to indicate how strong the current evidence supporting the massage routine is for that particular condition.

Evidence is often represented as a pyramid, with more studies of less strength at the base (bottom), and the fewest, strongest studies at the peak (top).

Source: http://ebp.lib.uic.edu/nursing/node/12

 

Routines from the literature

Routines submitted by community members

Routines from the Web