Research Networks

The Holistic Health Research Foundation of Canada

Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for Complementary & Alternative Medicine Research.   This is Canada's national registered charitable organization dedicated to funding research, public and health professional awareness in complementary and alternative health care.  See Research Competition links at bottom of this page. Deadline to receive submissions is Friday, July 31, 2009 at 5 p.m. EST.

www.HolisticHealthResearch.ca   

 

The Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for CAM Research

(IN-CAM) is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research network, created to foster excellence in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)* research in Canada. IN-CAM is co-directed by Dr. Heather Boon and Dr. Marja Verhoef. Dr. Heather Boon is a pharmacist and medical sociologist with an interest in CAM at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Pharmacy. Dr. Marja Verhoef is a social scientist and epidemiologist who holds a Canada Research Chair in Complementary Medicine at the University of Calgary's Department of Community Health Sciences. Both have been involved in CAM research network development and implementation through the Toronto CAM Research Network, the CAM Education and Research Network of Alberta (CAMera) and the Socio-behavioral Cancer Research Network. See information at the bottom of this page.

For more on IN-CAM here is the link:

www.incamresearch.ca

 

Useful links:

Clinical trials
www.clinicaltrials.gov

Internet Health Library
www.internethealthlibrary.com/Therapies/MassageTherapy-Research.htm

Medline
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed

PubMed listing of journals with links
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov

The Massage Therapy Research Fund http://www.holistichealthresearch.ca/massagefund.php

AMTA
www.amtafoundation.org/researchdb.html
www.amtamassage.org/infocenter/home.html

Massage Magazine
www.massagemag.com

Touch Research Institute
www.miami.edu/touch-research

 

Research Funding Opportunities:

Holistic Health Research announces 2009 Research Competition in Massage Therapy

 

 

The Holistic Health Research Foundation of Canada (www.HolisticHealthResearch.ca) is pleased to announce its 2009 open research competition in massage therapy.

Through its Massage Therapy Research Fund (MTRF), Holistic Health Research invites applications in:

• clinical research (primary focus)
• mechanisms of action and policy issues (secondary focus)

For 2009, a total funding amount of $50,000 is offered. Grant applications up to $15,000 will be considered. 

Studies may be qualitative, quantitative, or mixed method. Initially, funding preference will be given to smaller, pilot, or creative study designs. In this way, the MTRF aims to assist the scientific and massage communities in building a foundation for the eventual construction of more complicated research projects. The MTRF encourages applications that also seek funding from other sources.

The principal investigator must be affiliated with a Canadian charitable institution (university or hospital) that is willing to administer the finances of the grant. Funds are awarded to the charitable institution, not to an individual. The research team may include members affiliated with a non-Canadian institution. One member of the research team should be a massage therapist. Students at the masters level and above are encouraged to apply. 

Deadline to receive submissions is Friday July, 31, 2009 at 5 p.m. EST. Applicants will be notified of the status of their applications by December 1 and awards will be granted before December 31.

Application forms and instructions can be downloaded at www.massagetherapyresearch.ca

 

IN-CAM is a not for profit organization, “Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for CAM Research (see above). In 2004 their research funding provided a grant of  $25,000 in research project funding.

The Massage Therapy Research project winners were:

Trish Dryden and Sabine Moritz
Centennial College and Canadian Institute for Natural and Integrative Medicine

Co-investigator(s): Sunita Vohra, Janet Kahn, Elizabeth Barberree, Helen Lee Robertson

Project Title: Teaching Parents to Massage their Child with Cancer to Decrease Parental Stress and Child's Pain.

See article here: http://www.incamresearch.ca/index.php?id=22,157,0,0,1,0

 

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