Massage therapy

Subject guide

This NSI Libraries online subject guide provides links to information available on the web. Some resources require a DET username and password. Don’t know your DET username and password? Contact your College Student Administration or your teacher.

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Subject web links

 

Associations & organizations

Association of Massage Therapists

Australian Massage Therapists Network

Australian Association of Massage Therapists

Australian Traditional-Medicine Society

Infant Massage Australia

MAA - The Massage Association of Australia

Massage Australia

Reflexology Association of Australia


      Shiatsu Therapy Association of Australia

 

Links

Atlas of the body

Health and community services

TAFE Studylinks

Get body smart

Muscle tutorials and quizzes

Massage Info Center

This site offers you general information related to massage therapy including information & references to conducting research about massage, methods and techniques, alternative and holistic care. Provided by the American Massage Therapy Association.

HealthInsite provides quality health and well being information. Topic pages include:

 

Directories

Find a therapist


Natural therapy pages

 

Government information

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
National agency for health and welfare statistics and information.


Dept of Health & Aging, Therapeutic Goods Administration


Health Insite


NSW Health

      Office of Complimentary Medicines

Publications on injury management

by WorkCover NSW

 

Legislation and statistics

 

Australian Bureau of Statistics - Health theme Page

Statistics relating to health in Australia

Australasian Legal Information Institute

Lawlink NSW

 

Related subject guides

Nursing

Sport & recreation

 

   eJournals & eBooks

   

eJournals

   

Freely available journals

EBSCOhost

Click the link of one of the selected journals or databases. Log in using your DET Username and password.

ANZRC

• Journal of the Australian Traditional-Medicine

   Society

• Massage Australia

• Natural health

• Total health

  

CINAHL

• Clinical rehabilitation

• Massage & bodyworks

• Physical therapy

• PT: magazine of physical therapy

Gale Cengage Learning

Click the link to the databases or one of the selected journals. Log in using your DET Username and password.

Gale databases
• Human physiology

• Physical therapy

• Physiological reviews

    

eBooks

Free eBooks

Massage and the original Swedish movements

      Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 27th Edition

 

NetLibrary

Click the link of any of the examples and then click on "URL". Log in using your DET Username and password.

• The manager's guide to health & safety at work

 


 eReference

Log in using your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of your username. Once you have logged into the database, click on Subjects & Books and go to Medicine.

       Oxford Reference Online

• A dictionary of psychology

• A concise medical dictionary

• The Oxford companion to the body

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   Databases covering some massage therapy subjects

Here is a selection of subject specific databases provided. For the full list of general databases and regarding instructions go to the eResources Portal.

Name Description Access

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website. Includes statistics and some analysis of information from the National Census and other sources. Allows for the creation of local area profiles.

http://www.abs.gov.au/

Freely available

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre - EBSCO's searchable database provides full text, and index access to many local and international magazines, newspapers and reference books. Most general subjects are covered, including massage therapy.

DET username and password required.

CINAHL

CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health.

  

The Facts on File is a set of online reference databases. The Health Reference Centre database contains articles, illustrations and videos relating to health topics.

Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).

Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith).

Gale databases provide access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics. The sub-collection General OneFile includes over 6,300 full-text titles and 400 newspaper services (a total of more than 11,000 titles). Also included in the subscription is the 'General Reference Centre Gold'.

DET username and password required.

A searchable collection of 175+ key Oxford reference publications covering 25 subject areas. Includes bilingual dictionaries, encyclopaedias, subject reference, quotations, maps & illustrations and 42 x 20th century timelines.

 

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   Library catalogues

The NSW TAFE Library catalogue lists all the resources held in NSW TAFE libraries. You can search by keyword, author, title and subject and also limit searches to specific types of materials and specific college libraries. The catalogue has links to, and the addresses and contact details of, all individual NSW TAFE Libraries.

Subject headings

Catalogue links to some massage therapy and related subjects and availability through NSI Libraries are listed below. Please note: the search results are limited to items available in NSI Libraries. Do a new search if you want to find items held by your local library or to get results for all TAFE NSW Libraries.

  Acupressure Muscles
  Human anatomy Pain
  Human physiology Physical therapy
  Kinesiology Physiology -- atlases
  Massage therapy Relaxation
  Massage therapy -- safety measures Reflexotherapy
  Mind and body therapies Touch -- therapeutic use

Macquarie University Library

Macquarie University Library has an extensive collection of resources in the massage therapy area. NSI has a reciprocal borrower's agreement with Macquarie University ($44 per calendar year). Please ask your NSI library staff for details on how to access this service.     

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Last updated: 18.12.2009

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