Meet Jocelyn
Jocelyn, also known as OwieCowie, is an expert in her field.
Jocelyn began doing massage intuitively as a child. Her husband's job had him wanting massages daily and then one day, he crashed his motorcycle coming home from work. The X-rays showed he had broken 3 vertebrae. He requested nonstop massages, and after three weeks, to his friend's amazement, he was back to work and fixing his motorcycle, his back pain never returned. There was something about massage that seemed to help but what is the underlying science, read on to learn more.
Jocelyn has been a medical massage therapist for over 36 years. She was a Nurses Aide at Peace Arch Memorial Hospital in White Rock, BC. When she began studying and apprenticing in reflexology during this time. Later she studied Acupressure, with Dr Danica Begg UBC and apprenticed at the Acupuncture College in Santa Crus.
Shortly after graduating, she began researching and teaching massage. In 1991, she began the development of Mtn Spa, an Educational Retreat and Center for Fascia Research, here she offers classes on massage physiology, pain and using Palpation, Acupressure and Lymphatic Massage (PALM).
Jocelyn was the first Massage Therapist invited to present clinical workshops at the Canadian Pain Society; "Massage Physiology and Soft Tissue Assessment". She was invited a second time presenting "Palpation Techniques for Pain Assessment and Treatment".
Grant from the Massage Therapy Association BC to write a Systematic Review and was subsequently Published in Fascia Research 111 Congress.
As the former chair of the Massage Research Committee, Registered Massage Therapist Association BC., our biggest problem was there were no tools to measure pain. To this end, I met with Dan Robinson at the UBC dept ERGONOMICS. He recommended that I do systematic review papers. I realized an invention, hired engineers to develop a medical device to help objectively measure, what my hands can feel, and what patients express as PAIN. The hypothesis was could a biometrics device be developed that could provide data for inflammation felt during physical palpation examination.