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AMTA
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 Oregon’s
own Glenath Moyle of Portland has been elected to
the national American Massage Therapy Association
(AMTA) Presidency beginning in March 2011.
Moyle, who has been
active in and around the massage community in
Oregon for more than 20 years, has been
AMTA-Oregon Chapter Secretary, 3rd Vice President,
President, Newsletter Editor from 1997-2004, and
to those of us active at the board level, “Mama
Glen”, a supportive and knowledgeable presence and
voice willing to share and help when asked.
Also in Oregon, she
has served in a variety of capacities for the
Oregon Board of Massage Therapists (OBMT),
including Board Member (1990-97) Chair (1992-94),
and several committees throughout the years. While
currently running a massage practice in the
Portland area, Moyle continues to remain active
with
OBMT, including
ongoing duties as an examiner at the board. At the
National level, Moyle became a Member at Large on
the National AMTA Board of Directors in 2004,
serving until 2009 when she became National Vice
President. She has been National Membership Chair
(1999-2003), National Convention Co-Chair (2004),
and she has been AMTA Representative to the
Massage Therapy Foundation Board of Trustees since
2004.
Beginning this
March, Moyle assumes the AMTA National
President-Elect position, which she will hold
until next March, when she assumes the Presidency.
“I embrace the chance to serve as a leader in this
great, diverse profession,” she says, “and honor
the opportunities presented to our community to
promote love, kindness and healing to humanity,”
when asked about the focus of her presidency."
AMTA promotes the core ideology of professionalism
as we continue to evolve within the healthcare
field”.
A native of New
Zealand, Glenath and her husband Gordon moved to
the Portland area in 1977, where they have raised
four children. Two of their children were born in
America. Glenath had been a Registered Nurse and
Gordon an Engineer in New Zealand. Between New
Zealand and the United States, the Moyle’s had
lived for a time in Australia, where Gordon worked
for NASA and as a Professor at RMC Duntroon
(Australia’s West Point) and Glenath a geriatric
nurse. In the United States, Glenath became a
homemaker and a Girl Scout Leader, Trainer and Day
Camp director.
Glenath entered the
massage world by attending Notre Coeur College in
Portland, graduating in 1988. She was licensed,
and joined AMTA in 1989. She maintains a NCBTMB
certification which she first earned in 1994. She
was Oregon Chapter Meritorious Award winner in
1999, National Meritorious Award winner in 2004.
“For twenty years I
have volunteered my time to advancing the
profession, and supporting the massage therapy
professional,” she notes. “I offer continuity of
leadership, knowledge, dedication, enthusiasm,
listening skills, and time,” she concludes. Moyle
will be AMTA President when Portland hosts the
2011 AMTA National Convention that October. |
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 Government Relations News
by Leah
Bowder, LMT #12252
AMTA-OR Government Relations Committee Chair
There are several bills in front of the state
legislature this session that have potential
impact for massage therapists:
SB 146: This is a housekeeping bill presented by
OBMT and is similar to the bill they introduced in
2007. It involves some minor changes and updates
language in statute.
HB 2057: This is a bill submitted by
Representative Mitch Greenlick in the Oregon House
of Representatives. Passage of this legislation
would take the state health related agencies
including the Oregon Board of Massage Therapists
and move them from their current semi-independent
agency status back under full government pervue.
Their current semi-independent status enables the
Board to respond quickly to any number of issues.
A change in status would add more bureaucracy and
almost certainly would lead to what could be
significant increase in licensing fees.
HB 2058: makes standard requirements and
procedures for all board appointments.
HB 2059 & HB 2118: requires mandatory reporting of
violations of health professionals.
HB 2347: prevents health licensing boards from
assessing costs or attorney fees for disciplinary
hearings.
HB 2345: Requires health profession licensing
boards to develop process for dealing with
impaired professionals.
As a massage therapist, I encourage you all to
remember that our profession is regulated by the
state legislature. Visit
http://www.leg.state.or.us/findlegsltr/home.html
to contact your state representative and senator.
It is important to stay informed and let your
local representatives know how you feel about
these changes. If you have any questions or would
like more information, please feel free to contact
me at 503-348-1574. I enjoy serving as your
Government Relations Committee Chair and would be
happy to talk to you. |
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My CVOP
Experience
By Carol Ann Carnese, LMT#12504
AMTA-OR 3rd Vice President
I would like to take a moment to thank the board and
membership for allowing me to attend the 2008 Chapter
Volunteer Orientation Program (CVOP) in Evanston, Illinois
this year. CVOP is such a valuable tool in many ways, and
I could write on and on about it, but I will spare you and
just give you my impressions in the short digest form.
In a nutshell, CVOP is about the members. Plain and
simple. We are all so busy with our own lives with all the
traumas, dramas, crises and demands from job, family, etc.
that it is easy to forget why we are here.
How can I help YOU the Member? I volunteered to be on the
board because I believe in the AMTA and what it stands
for. The AMTA is doing great things for the Licensed
Massage Therapists and even better things are ahead. I
want to be a part of that. I want to hear from YOU out
there to tell me what your concerns are. What do you think
of your membership? What would you like to see done
differently? I want to hear from YOU out there in McDermit
as well as you in Wallowa, Beulah, Brookings and every
place in between.
The theme for CVOP was “Remember the Member”. Every one of
you out there is the reason I sit on this board today. I
am a member just like you, and I’m no different than you
are. I have bills to pay, kids to get through school,
dinner to get on the table. Volunteering for the AMTA-OR
chapter is my way of paying back to the membership. Every
one of you out there can do the same thing with very
little effort on your part. If you see a survey, fill it
out. If there is a concern regarding anything at all to do
with the AMTA, let one of your board members know. You
don’t have to live in the metropolitan area of Portland to
be on a committee or help out. We do a lot of things by
email, by teleconference etc. Each of us on this board is
here to serve YOU our members!
CVOP to me was a GREAT reminder to “Remember the Member”
and why I am here. Our chapter has made attempts in the
past to bring that CVOP feeling to our own state and reach
out to our members with our own mini-CVOP with moderate
success. I would like to see it become a HUGE success with
people coming from all over the state to attend. Let us
show you in person how you can help your own chapter. It
is not nearly as hard or time consuming as it sounds.
I look forward to hearing from everyone all over the
state, good, bad or indifferent because YOU are the reason
we are all here.
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Today I
Became a Mechanotherapist ….Maybe!
 Mechanotherapy (měk'ə-nō-thěr'ə-pē) is
defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as ‘Medical
treatment by mechanical means, such as massage’. A week
ago I had never heard of a mechanotherapist, let alone
spell it. Now maybe, I “R” one. All I could think of was
that in my childhood I had a Meccano™ i.e. an
Erector™ set.
Artwork
©Sheryl Butler 2008
After twenty
years as a massage therapist I was asked last week by an
old friend, teacher and Chiropractor if I would bill
insurance for massage. In determining how to bill
insurance I waded through a quagmire of minutiae.
First I
needed the Treatment Prescription from the Health Care
Provider, then the Insurance details from the client
followed by a phone call to the insurance agent who sent
me to ‘Claims’. They reside in DuPont (If you have
watched the movie The American President you will know
about the perils of DuPont Circle). It seems that I
now need this form, that form and every other form. To
proceed I called for help from fellow LMT’s. The first
one says “take my class”; “no time” say I “the client is
on the way”. The second one offers me copies of forms
they use in their office, yet a third, a two year LMT (you’ve
got to love these young, down to earth, internet savvy
gals), says “Glen do you have an National Provider
Identifier (NPI)? Just go to NPI on the internet and sign
up“. So off to consult the oracles of the internet go
me, to google for NPI.
After
many detours find the
https://nppes.cms.hhs.gov/NPPES/Welcome.do
website. Log in, enter all pertinent information,
personal and business, and proceed to the Taxonomy code
section. Hmm, no massage therapy on the first menu. I
clicked “Other Service Provider” and found “Acupuncturist
“, “Homeopath “, “Naprapath “, “Naturopath “and “Reflexologist”.
I’m in good company here so I must be on the right track,
but still nothing looking like “Massage Therapist” just a
classification for “Mechanotherapist”. I googled
the dictionary website and bingo and that’s what I “R”! ….
maybe. No more research needed, as I now have an NPI
classification and I received an email with my NPI number.
However, I’m
left wondering which CPT codes are valid. So I call yet
another friend and colleague who reminded me that in the
February 2007 Oregon Board of Massage Therapy newsletter,
BOARDerline, there was an article about NPI’s. That
article directed me to the Taxonomy “Respiratory”
heading. Who would have thought?
Back to the
internet, more browsing, and sure enough, under the
Respiratory section is the Massage Therapist
classification. I added Massage Therapist as the primary
taxonomy to my profile and received a new email with the
same number.
I’m
still curious. Where did these taxonomies come from? So
I did more research and found that the Enumerating
authority appears to be the Washington Publishing Company,
I believe a private entity,
http://www.wpc-edi.com/codes/taxonomy
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They show the following details and source as -
Active
Code
172M00000X Type
Level II Classification
Mechanotherapist
A practitioner of mechanotherapy examines patients by
verbal inquiry, examination of the musculoskeletal system
by hand, and visual inspection and observation. In the
treatment of patients, mechanotherapists employ the
techniques of advised or supervised exercise; electrical
neuromuscular stimulation; massage or manipulation; or
air, water, heat, cold, sound, or infrared ray therapy.
Source: Summarized from Ohio Revised Code 4731.15
[1/1/2007: new]
Now the
question comes full circle – WHAT “R” I?
A dazed and confused therapist,
Glen Moyle
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MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
by Johannes Venghaus, LMT#11918
How many times in your career as a massage therapist have
you said to yourself, “I wish I had somebody who could
show me how to, or help me with…” Whatever the issue is in
our sometimes challenging profession, we think it would be
great if there was a way to interchange information. To
make this happen we need your help: We are looking for
people that would love to contribute to the Mentorship
Committee to put this together. If you think this is a
great idea and you can’t wait to share your thoughts and
ideas about how to make this work call me at (503)
789-9547 or send an e-mail to me at
jvenghaus@gmail.com. |
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As many of you know, our Iraq war veterans are returning
home to the United States with a variety of physical and
mental problems. Haleta Holmes of the AMTA Ohio chapter
has started a program including a list of volunteer
massage therapists listed on the website
http://www.operationhomefront..net/. These massage
therapists have agreed to offer to Iraq war veterans a
first free massage followed by deeply discounted massages
after, for a limited time.
Currently, I am the only volunteer listed for the state of
Oregon. For those of you interested in adding your name to
the list, please contact me, 503-348-1574, or email at
leahbowder@yahoo.com, and I will get your name to
Haleta.
By Leah Bowder, LMT #12252
AMTA-OR 1st Vice President |
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