Issue link: https://www.massageandbodyworkdigital.com/i/72312
RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES A massage practitioner who is research literate can read a research article, understand the essential take-home points, and apply them in practice with clients. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the new Somatic Research columnist. My name is Ravensara S. Travillian, and I have practiced massage in the Seattle area since 1991. Most of my practice has involved treating survivors of war and genocide for trauma, but in addition I have worked with people living with the effects of stroke and with women having high-risk pregnancies. I am also an informatician, which is a word most people have never heard of it. Think mathematician or statistician, except instead of math or statistics, I study information: how we gather the information we need and how we organize it, use it, and share it with others. Information management is what I study, and more specifically, information with regard to massage therapy—what information we need as a profession, what information we already have, and what we do (or want to do) with it. That is a story that continues to be written, and we will be working together to explore it. massagetherapy.com—for you and your clients 143