PD 100 / VCMT QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS RATED A+ 2025/2026
Why do we study professional development? - correct answer ✔✔Because massage therapy
encompasses more than the techniques we learn. To understand how to respond ethically to
clinical situations. To help emotional intelligence with intellect.
Define Communication - correct answer ✔✔A continuous, transactional process.... two parties
exchange messages
Define Transaction - correct answer ✔✔a communicative action or activity involving two parties
or things that reciprocally affect or influence each other's
Brief History of Massage - correct answer ✔✔3000 BC , bodywork
400 BC, Hippocrates , hippo ratio corpus
1800, Swedish gymnastics, standardizes terminology and differentiates massage stroked from
movement therapies, John Kellogg writes Art of Massage
1894 , professional organization in Britain
1919, Ontario first province to regular practice
1946, BC joins
1995, collage of massage therapy was created (BC)
2005, NFL
2013, NB
2019, PIE
Massage Therapy is a self regulated healthcare profession - what does this mean? - correct
answer ✔✔We police ourselves, through a regulatory body (CMTBC)
, Research is related to establishing and maintaining credibility- why? - correct answer
✔✔Because through evidence based and researched based methods we can prove to the public
that are modailitys work
Scope of practice - correct answer ✔✔The activites that RMTs are education and authorized to
perform, established through legislated definition in Massage Therapist Regulation
Research Terms: Gold Standard - correct answer ✔✔Double Blind Study - participating
individuals and staff do not know who is receiving intervention and who is receiving placebo
Evidence Based - collection of scientific research currently available about a topic or treatment.
Helps make decisions about services/treatments provided
Hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔An assumption put forward as a basis for reasoning or
argument, or as a guide to experimental investigation
Peer Review - correct answer ✔✔Review of a clinical trial by experts chosen by the study
sponsor. These experts review trials for scientific merit, participant safety and ethical
consideration
Cohort - correct answer ✔✔In epidemiology, a group of individuals with some characteristics in
common.
Contraindications - correct answer ✔✔A specific circumstance when the use of certain
treatments could be harmful
Control group - correct answer ✔✔The standard by which experimental observations are
evaluated
Subjective and Objective Measures - correct answer ✔✔Subject reported vs observed
ANSWERS RATED A+ 2025/2026
Why do we study professional development? - correct answer ✔✔Because massage therapy
encompasses more than the techniques we learn. To understand how to respond ethically to
clinical situations. To help emotional intelligence with intellect.
Define Communication - correct answer ✔✔A continuous, transactional process.... two parties
exchange messages
Define Transaction - correct answer ✔✔a communicative action or activity involving two parties
or things that reciprocally affect or influence each other's
Brief History of Massage - correct answer ✔✔3000 BC , bodywork
400 BC, Hippocrates , hippo ratio corpus
1800, Swedish gymnastics, standardizes terminology and differentiates massage stroked from
movement therapies, John Kellogg writes Art of Massage
1894 , professional organization in Britain
1919, Ontario first province to regular practice
1946, BC joins
1995, collage of massage therapy was created (BC)
2005, NFL
2013, NB
2019, PIE
Massage Therapy is a self regulated healthcare profession - what does this mean? - correct
answer ✔✔We police ourselves, through a regulatory body (CMTBC)
, Research is related to establishing and maintaining credibility- why? - correct answer
✔✔Because through evidence based and researched based methods we can prove to the public
that are modailitys work
Scope of practice - correct answer ✔✔The activites that RMTs are education and authorized to
perform, established through legislated definition in Massage Therapist Regulation
Research Terms: Gold Standard - correct answer ✔✔Double Blind Study - participating
individuals and staff do not know who is receiving intervention and who is receiving placebo
Evidence Based - collection of scientific research currently available about a topic or treatment.
Helps make decisions about services/treatments provided
Hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔An assumption put forward as a basis for reasoning or
argument, or as a guide to experimental investigation
Peer Review - correct answer ✔✔Review of a clinical trial by experts chosen by the study
sponsor. These experts review trials for scientific merit, participant safety and ethical
consideration
Cohort - correct answer ✔✔In epidemiology, a group of individuals with some characteristics in
common.
Contraindications - correct answer ✔✔A specific circumstance when the use of certain
treatments could be harmful
Control group - correct answer ✔✔The standard by which experimental observations are
evaluated
Subjective and Objective Measures - correct answer ✔✔Subject reported vs observed
