Three Lessons Learned from My First Clinical Trial
Three things Paige Mullins learned from developing the massage intervention for the Integrative Medicine for Pain in Patients with Advanced Cancer Trial.
Paige Mullins, LCSW, LMT, has served as an oncology massage therapist, clinician-researcher, educator, and clinical social worker. Her career has been guided by a belief that exceptional clinical care depends on both the science and the art of healing. Massage continues to shape the somatic, relational framework that informs her psychotherapy practice.
Three things Paige Mullins learned from developing the massage intervention for the Integrative Medicine for Pain in Patients with Advanced Cancer Trial.
The evolution of oncology massage started with patients, not researchers or practitioners.
Developing a massage protocol for the IMPACT study underscored that practitioners’ clinical reasoning and patient-centered understanding developed in clinical practice is critical to the research conversation.