LibGuides: Research Literacy for Massage Therapist: Finding the evidence

Background Databases

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
A United States government agency which explores complementary and alternative medicine.
Medline Plus
A government website maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine. The service provides general consumer health information.

ScienceDirect College Edition This link opens in a new window
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Peer-reviewed scientific studies and review articles. Major focus: science and medicine. Minor focus: social science and humanities.
CINAHL This link opens in a new window
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Full-text scholarly and peer reviewed articles for nursing and allied health topics.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
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Peer-reviewed articles from scholarly journals in business, engineering, medicine, humanities, and social sciences.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences Archive Collection This link opens in a new window
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Contains digitized back issues of academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Free Access to Databases Below

Meta-analysis on MT and Pain Part I
The Massage Therapy Foundation (MTF), Samueli Institute, and the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) recently partnered on a collaborative project for a meta-analysis of massage therapy for pain. The results of this collaboration were published in a three part series in the journal Pain Medicine.
Pain Meta-analysis Part II
Pain Meta-analysis Part III