This survey is for CAM manual therapy practitioners throughout Alberta. The questionnaires were distributed through organizations and spas by mail, as per results of Survey #1.

There are two parts to Survey #2. The main survey is a demographic questionnaire collecting information in the following areas:

• practice settings (clinic, spa, on-site, etc.)
• therapies/modalities practiced & the training for them
• basic demographics of the patients/clients (gender ratio and age range
• general descriptors on purpose of client visits
• some basic demographics of the practitioners

There is a second component to this survey in which 19 representative practitioner volunteers were interviewed to gain further understanding of how clinical decisions are made and therapies blended together in treatments when more than one therapy is provided by the practitioner.

This information should give anyone interested in the field of CAM manual therapies a clearer picture of the complex and myriad ways that these services are provided, and an understanding of the population that uses them. That information will be invaluable to developing effective research and health policy. Check out the available results

This survey has been supported by grants from:

• The Massage Therapy Foundation www.massagetherapyfoundation.org
• The Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research www.incamresearch.ca
• The Canadian Chair in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Reserch,
  Dr. Verhoef, who is my PhD Thesis Supervisor.

Ethical Clearance
The Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board of the University of Calgary has approved this project. Results will only be released as summaries of the data-in no way will it be possible to identify individual participants.