Massage Therapy
Capstone
MASS140R Massage Capstone - 2 Class Hours/3 Lab Hours/ 3 Credits
This course is designed to have students completely integrate every aspect of their prior learning into outcome based massage treatment protocols and a final cumulative project. The integration of all treatment modalities the student has studied and the skills they have acquired to date will be coupled with scholarly research and appropriate applications for specific common conditions. medical history, S.O.A.P. notes, focusing on specific problems and their treatment will be addressed. (Prerequisites: AHLT123R, SCI111R, MASS121R)
RVCC Discovery Search Platform: Your Gateway to our Databases
The Library's Discovery Search allows you to search across most of our databases at one time- to find books, periodical articles, and media clips. This is a great place to start your research.
Journal Databases
- CINAHL Complete (EBSCO) : Includes scholarly articles in full text for more than 1,300 journals for Nursing and Allied Health
- EBSCOhost : A large collection of scholarly and popular articles in a broad range of subjects.
- ProQuest Central : A large collection of scholarly and popular articles on a broad range on subjects.
- ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health : Scholarly articles for nursing education and the allied health fields.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) : Free, full-text and peer-reviewed scientific journals
- PubMed : A collection of citations and abstracts of biomedical literature for health care professionals from the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Google Scholar: Google Scholar is a Web search engine that specifically searches scholarly literature and academic resources.
Book & eBook Databases
- CCSNH Catalog for books, videos
- WorldCat.org: lets you search the holdings of thousands of libraries and then see if the item of interest is located at Belk Library or in a library near you.Contains a variety of formats, such as books, music CDs, videos, digital content, audiobooks, journals, and article citations.
- eBooks from EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection: Online and offline access to eBooks on a wide range of subjects
- On a public computer, read online.
- On your personal computer or eReader, download books after installing Adobe Digital Editions (ADE). For help go to ADE Help page.
- Downloaded books expire in 7 days.
Reference Databases
- Credo Reference : An excellent place to begin your research on an unfamiliar topic.
- PubMed Health : A collection of information on the prevention and treatment of diseases and condition for consumers and clinicians from the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Video Databases
- ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health (Videos): Collection of nursing and allied health videos on various topics (clinical skills, professionalism, ethics, HIPAA). Click on the + symbol to open the videos available in each series.
- Anatomy.tv: Includes detailed multi-layer graphics of all areas of the human body.
- Human Body Maps: is an interactive visual search tool that allows users to explore the human body in 3-D.
Web Resources
- American Massage Therapy Association: Educational, career and practice guidance for massage therapists and students.
- Massage Therapy: Public information and health site about massage therapy practices.
- Massage Therapy Foundation: Research and educational topics, including access to the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork: Research, Education, & Practice.
- National Center for Complementary and Integrated Health: Research and information topics from the National Institute of Health.
Notes
- Cited Reference Searching: Cited references are the articles, books or other materials listed in a bibliography or as works cited in a particular publication.
- Cited Reference Searching in CINAHL (Ebsco Database) Video Tutorial
Databases that Support Cited Reference Searching:
- CINAHL [Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature/Ebsco DB]
- PubMed
- Google Scholar (all disciplines; comprehensive)