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Research Perch

Massage Therapy Foundation

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Research Perch is a podcast designed to help you learn how to use massage therapy research in your practice. Each episode digs into a specific article from the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork and unpacks it so you know how it applies to you. Grow your massage therapy practice and serve your clients better with the power of research!
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On Balance

Dr. Rod Berger

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Dr. Rod Berger introduces On Balance, part of the SPN network. Dr. Berger invites you into the conversation around the world of education and explores the stories of today with the personalities impacting tomorrow. Investigating the ideas poised to shape the minds of our next generation and enlighten the path that will lead us towards our brightest future.
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Those who face the greatest adversity tell the most enlightening stories. Hall of Fame Paralympic athlete, the first “nearly unassisted” paraplegic to summit Mt Kilimanjaro and the founder of One Revolution Foundation Chris Waddell chats with members of the adaptive community regarding some of life’s most enduring questions: am I a victim or a survivor, is the situation overwhelming or a challenge, am I alone or part of a team and do I have one strategy or many? One Revolution’s Nametags Edu ...
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Check in for a dose of stigma-break, humor-filling, empowerment building life hacks and motivation for all the “medically-adult-ish” young people. The InvisiYouth Chat Sessions, is part of InvisiYouth Charity. This international nonprofit helps teens and young adults with various chronic illnesses and disabilities gain the right lifestyle programs, empowerment and interactive activism to learn how to keep living life. Twice a month, our founder, Dominique Viel, will bring guest experts from ...
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Rachel Byrne, Executive Director of the Cerebral Palsy Foundation (CPF), joins host Dr. Rod Berger to learn more about CP and the educational opportunities to impact individuals, families, educators, and organizations driving CPF's mission. More than 17 million people globally are living with Cerebral Palsy (CP), making it the most common lifelong …
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Bringing back an old friend always brings the fun on a podcast, and this episode doesn’t disappoint. It’s returning guest, burn survivor, physiotherapist for Katie Piper Foundation, model and public speaker, Catrin Pugh. After surviving a coach crash and fire in the French Alps in 2013, Catrin was left with 96% burns on her body, and along her jour…
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28th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. It’s the latest addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions …
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We’ve got one of our favorite sister duos back on the podcast, and we’re celebrating all of their achievements! It’s Rachel and Abigail Heringer! You’ll remember Abigail from Season 25 of The Bachelor and Season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise (where she met her fiancée Noah) but now she’s a published author to her new memoir, The Deaf Girl! Abigail and …
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27th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. It’s the latest addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions …
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Listen in to Research Perch as MTF President Adrienne F. Asta speaks with Spencer Pon, Gold Winner of MTF's 2023 Student Case Report Contest, about his winning case report, Massage Therapy for Ankle Mobility and Spasticity in an Adult with Cerebral Palsy: A Case Report. Pon’s research focused on the effectiveness of massage therapy in increasing an…
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It’s all about hanging with the besties on this podcast episode as our host, and InvisiYouth’s founder/executive director Dominique, brings back a returning podcast guest that’s also one of her closest friends, charity social media manager and social lead at The Children’s Society, and disability/chronic illness advocate, Ali Hemsley. Ali has a ple…
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26th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. It’s the latest addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions …
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Check out the latest episode of On Balance as Dr. Rod Berger takes a deep dive into higher education through the lens of award-winning journalist Karin Klein and her latest book, Rethinking College - A Guide To Thriving Without A Degree. "A valuable reassessment of America's educational system." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY What if you didn't have to go to c…
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As a graduate teaching assistant at Georgia Tech, CEO & Co-Founder of Instructify Chirag Tailor worked on designing educational technology to improve the quality of online education. After entering the industry, he continued volunteering with the Georgia Tech EdTech Lab led by his advisor, Dr. Thad Starner. The tools designed by Chirag & Dr. Starne…
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Spotlight on Recognition: Enhancing Education with Hilight's Claire Smith and Krissy Taft Welcome to "On Balance," the podcast where we delve into the world of education, technology, and entrepreneurship through inspiring and insightful conversations. I'm your host, Dr. Rod Berger, and in this episode, we are thrilled to feature the co-founders of …
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It’s great to catch up with old friends and our special guest has been part of the InvisiYouth community for over six years! We have award-winning British blogger and freelance writer and cerebral palsy activist, Chloe Tear. With over 11 years of blog/freelance writing experience, and years of working in the cerebral palsy community, Chloe has carv…
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25th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. It’s the latest addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions …
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Research Perch continues—Case Series Guidelines Part 2. Listen in as Dr. Niki Munk and Robin Miccio speak with Dr. Michael Fleischmann from Victoria University, Melbourne, AU, about his recent paper, “A Clinician's Guide to Performing a Case Series Study,” and how such guidelines can impact the future of integrative care and working with allied hea…
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In this On Balance episode, Dr. Rod Berger sits down with Strategos Group Partner and former Florida State Legislator Vance Aloupis, who discusses his latest venture: a new Strategos consulting practice called National Advocacy Management (NAM). Drawing on his background in education advocacy, Vance shares his vision for NAM and how it will benefit…
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Such a full-circle moment to have our Season 1 finale special guest on the podcast five seasons later! And it’s such a special episode because we have special guest, co-founder and executive director of Claire’s Place Foundation, Melissa Yeager. The mom of Elle and Claire, Melissa has continued Claire Wineland’s legacy of cystic fibrosis activism a…
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Adam Giery, Managing Partner at Strategos Group, embodies the aspirational spirit of a student with the ferocity of a grizzled veteran of the choppy waves of entrepreneurship. This special episode of On Balance with Dr. Rod Berger looks at the power of persistence through an exemplar of authentic leadership. Giery, below, aptly describes his initia…
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Listen in as Dr. Niki Munk and Robin Miccio speak with Dr. Michael Fleischmann from Victoria University, Melbourne, AU, about his recent paper, “A Clinician's Guide to Performing a Case Series Study,” and how such guidelines can impact the future of integrative care and working with allied health professionals. Part 1 discusses case series and case…
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Joanna McFarland and a group of moms discussed the daily challenge of getting their kids from point A to point B at a child’s birthday party in late 2013. Joanna suggested they buy a van and hire all the moms and babysitters in the neighborhood to drive their children around. The idea sparked what would become HopSkipDrive: think not quite Uber for…
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24th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. It’s the latest addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions …
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Bringing back old friends and celebrating all the things that have flourished in their lives is a great feeling. InvisiYouth Chat Sessions is now going to be bringing back former podcast guests and catching up with them during the next two seasons…and we’re starting with one of our Celebrity Ambassadors. It’s British actress and disability activist…
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Amir Nathoo is the co-founder and CEO of Outschool, a marketplace for live online classes for K-12 learners. He led Square Payroll's development and served as CEO and co-founder of Trigger.io. He holds an MEng in Electrical and Information Sciences from The University of Cambridge. Outschool is an innovative education platform that offers a variety…
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23rd InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. It’s the fourth addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions …
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Learn more about the MTF Research Grant, Massage Service Integration in a Military Primary Care Clinic: Implementation and Impact Study, conducted by the Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management (DVCIPM), Rockville, MD. The study researches massage therapy’s promising evidence-based approach to reducing the burden of chronic pain…
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The Strategos Podcast Network is happy to debut the first episode of Strategos #TeacherTalks in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week! Our first episode is an On Balance special with host and Strategos Senior Advisor Dr. Rod Berger and Autumn Rivera, a sixth-grade science teacher, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, and 2023 Association for Middle Leve…
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Bringing sports videography to life and seeing athleticism through the lens brings so much high energy that the person behind the camera has to have the passion. And our special guest has that passion! It’s videographer for the NFL and NWSL, senior video producer for UCLA Athletics, and Lupus warrior, Suzi Mellano. Doing sports videography work tha…
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Kathleen Rogers is the President of EARTHDAY.ORG. Under her leadership, it has grown into a global year-round policy and activist organization. She has been the leading voice in developing campaigns and programs focused on diversifying the environmental movement, highlighted by Campaign for Communities and Billion Acts of Green. Kathleen has held s…
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Before Ello, Tom Sayer was the head of impact and adoption programs at Google for Education, where his team was responsible for ensuring that Google tools were used effectively in classrooms worldwide. He is on the board of GO Public Schools, an organization dedicated to giving voice to families in the most underserved communities, and on the advis…
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22nd InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. It’s the third addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions s…
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Victor Wang is the CEO of Stockpile, the leading online brokerage for kids and families. He is also the founder of The Stockpile Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing financial awareness, advancing knowledge of financial planning, and investing in marginalized communities and at-risk youth. Victor assumed the position of Sto…
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Learn more about the mechanisms of pain and the importance of pain validation in client care. Join us for Research Perch, as host MTF Vice President Lindsay Bodkin, BA, LMT, CPT, speaks with educators Whitney Lowe (Academy of Clinical Massage) and Douglas Nelson, LMT, BCTMB (Precision Neuromuscular Therapy Seminars).…
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Bridging smart, approachable, fun and chic into advocacy isn’t easy, but our special guest has carved out a lane for herself in the content creation world. It’s advocate, content creator and reporter for Accessible Media Inc, Mara Hutchinson. Living with Retinitis Pigmentosa and Usher Syndrome, Mara deals with hearing loss along with being legally …
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21st InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. It’s the second addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions …
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Dov Friedman has been selling EdTech for over a decade. Friedman joins Dr. Berger to discuss the role culture plays in understanding the impact on the development of young people across the world. Friedman is incredibly refreshing and transparent with his entrepreneurial journey. During his University years in NY, Friedman worked weekends with spec…
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Dr. Rod Berger is joined by Kevin Jenkins, Director of Enterprise Growth & Investments at Strategos Group, to discuss work in the financial services sector and the role education has played in his decision to pivot from a classic engineering career to one of a more fluid and entrepreneurial path.De către Dr. Rod Berger
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Season 6 begins today! And we’re excited for an entirely new set of special guests, fun segments, empowering life advice and great stories. And we have an epic first guest of Season 6, it’s the owner and designer of the popular walking stick and cane company, Neo-Walk, Lyndsay Watterson. Launched in 2013, Neo-Walk creates handmade acrylic walking s…
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20th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. It’s the first episode from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions su…
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Quincy Kadin is a high school student in Los Angeles. After feeling the effects of anxiety during her childhood, she spurred this courageous trailblazer to author a book for all ages. Frankies Fishy Feelings is a fantastically grounded book helping kids and parents navigate emotional obstacles.De către Dr. Rod Berger
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Teodora Pavkovic is the Director of Wellbeing at Linewize, where she leverages her decade-plus of experience as a parenting coach and digital wellness practitioner to provide guidance and advice to parents, teachers, and school administrators on topics concerning mental health, responsible and safe use of technology, tech ethics, parenting in the d…
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On Balance with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Chief Academic Officer Francie Alexander. Dr. Rod Berger and Francie discuss her life's work throughout education and current trends impacting policy and practice. HMH recently released its Educator Confidence Report which showed teachers rated their confidence in the profession at a 42 out of 100 (slight…
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19th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. As the final episode for our “Mediator Communication Series” for 2023, we are focusing on the communication dynamic that every single one of us …
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Season 5 Finale episode, let's get into it! Sharing your life on a public and personal level when you’re also living with a chronic or progressive illness is a daily balancing act, so it’s important to find the ways you’re able to thrive personally and with those around you. Our special guest knows exactly how to do that and has made us a fan of he…
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Dr. Jody LeVos As Chief Learning Officer at Begin, Jody is responsible for leading HOMER’s team of learning design experts to craft an innovative, playful learning curriculum and provide data-driven insights for parents. With over a decade of experience in the children’s media and early learning space, Jody has overseen the development of countless…
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Nick Dazé is the co-founder and CEO of Heirloom, which builds no-code tools allowing schools and employers to tokenize credentials on the blockchain. Before co-founding Heirloom, he co-founded PocketList and was an early team member at tech companies such as Faraday Future ($FFIE), Fullscreen (acquired by AT&T), and Bit Kitchen (acquired by Medium …
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Ben Farrell joins Dr. Rod Berger to discuss wildly innovative approaches to education positioning current students for the future. Human-centered design, and entrepreneurism and innovation underscore this new approach to education. Ben joined the New England Innovation Academy (NEIA) from The International Montessori School of Beijing in Beijing, C…
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18th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. We’re focusing on the relationship and communication within the family gatherings. Since a lot of our lives deal with the process of going to fa…
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Learn more about Basics of Research Literacy (BRL), an online continuing education course for massage therapists and educators about incorporating principles of research literacy in your practice and teaching. MTF President Adrienne Asta speaks with author/educator Whitney Lowe (Academy of Clinical Massage) about the new and revised 3-hour NCBTMB-a…
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Director of Family Support and PTSD Services for the nonprofit, Ryan’s Case for Smiles, Katie Holcomb, knows the importance of caregivers and siblings for young people with chronic illness/disability and how to best serve this bond professionally and personally. The nonprofit is inspired by her late brother, Ryan, who passed away at 17 from osteosa…
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Nina Rees | President and Chief Executive Officer National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) Nina Rees is the president and chief executive officer of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the leading national nonprofit organization committed to advancing the charter school movement. Prior to joining the National Alliance, Nin…
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