Delve into three research projects from the Massage Therapy Foundation’s international practice-based research network, MassageNet. Hear from Dr. Portia Resnick and doctoral candidate Samantha Zabel as they share key results from the Ergonomics Project and MassageNet’s first study examining massage therapists’ knowledge and attitudes related to mental health and how experience influences client care.
Learn how these findings can inform practice and contribute to evidence development for the profession.
The Massage Therapy Foundation’s International Massage Therapy Research Conferences (IMTRC) are designed to bring together an engaged massage therapy-focused community of thought leaders, educators, clinicians, and researchers as well as other allied health practitioners to discuss recently completed and ongoing massage therapy research. This session was originally presented at IMTRC 2025. For more information, please visit the Massage Therapy Foundation.
At the conclusions of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Learn about MassageNet Research
- Learn about the impact of mental health on receiving care
- Learn how to incorporate evidence based research into practice
- Learn the different projects being handled by MassageNet
Samantha Zabel, MA, PhD(c), is a trained massage therapist and is completing her PhD at Indiana University, focusing her research on how massage therapy can be used to support mental health.
Portia B. Resnick, PhD, ATC, BCTMB, boasts over 25 years of experience in the sports medicine field as a Board Certified athletic trainer and massage therapist. With a PhD in Education with a concentration in Kinesiology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, her research delved into the use of heart rate variability as a clinical measure of recovery in NCAA Division I athletes.
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Course Approval Code(s)
LCEU0004844
Copyright
This course contains information that is proprietary. None of the material contained within this course may be used without the express written permission
of AMTA unless otherwise indicated in the course. As a reminder, before practicing any new modalities or techniques, check with your state’s massage therapy
regulatory authority to ensure they are within the state’s defined scope of practice for massage therapy.
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