Massage Therapy Foundation Looking for Qualified Runners for 2016 Boston Marathon

The Massage Therapy Foundation (MTF) announced today that the John Hancock Nonprofit Marathon Program has granted them three invitational entries (bibs) for the 2016 Boston Marathon. 

The Foundation is looking for three qualified runners to be a part of Team MTF—Running for Research. The selected runners will have a chance to participate in this event, as well as raise money for the MTF.

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Last year’s team consisted of three massage therapists: John Combe, Nathan Nordstrom, and ABMP’s Director of Affinity Relations Angie Parris-Raney. All three runners finished the race and raised more than $43,200 for the profession.

MTF President Jerrilyn Cambron, LMT, DC, MPH, PhD, states, “We are so excited to be given the opportunity to participate once again in such an amazing program. We had an incredible team last year, and I am looking forward to finding out who the 2016 runners will be.”

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