Massage Therapy Awareness Week

Better Care, Together.

Massage Therapy Awareness Week | October 25–31, 2026

Registered Massage Therapists are part of your healthcare team.

RMTs bring massage therapy knowledge and skills, a commitment to listening, and a collaborative approach to supporting your health and well-being.

This Massage Therapy Awareness Week, the Massage Therapy Association of Manitoba joins colleagues across Canada in celebrating the contribution RMTs make to your care—and the professional connections that help keep your goals at the centre.

Your care begins with you

Your healthcare team shares a purpose: supporting you.

Your RMT listens to your concerns, discusses your treatment goals, and works with you to understand how massage therapy fits into your care. Your experiences, questions, and preferences help guide that conversation.

Whether your team includes two professionals or several, you are an active partner in your care.

Different expertise. Shared purpose.

RMTs work with people who also receive care from physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, chiropractors, mental health professionals, and other healthcare providers.

Each profession contributes distinct knowledge and skills. Collaboration means understanding and respecting those roles, recognizing the limits of one’s own expertise, and knowing when another professional’s support may be helpful.

For your RMT, that can include communicating with other providers with your consent, making appropriate referrals, and considering your treatment goals in the context of the other care you receive.

Your providers don’t have to work under one roof to be part of your team. Professional relationships can connect care across clinics, settings, and communities.

Invested in working together

Collaboration is a commitment to learning, communicating, and building relationships.

RMTs strengthen those connections through continuing education, mentorship, shared knowledge, and engagement with colleagues across healthcare professions.

MTAM supports that commitment by fostering professional learning and connections that help members support the people they serve.

Start the conversation

Let your RMT know about the other healthcare professionals involved in your care. Together, you can discuss:

• How massage therapy fits with your current care and goals.
• Whether communication with another provider would be helpful.
• When another professional’s expertise or a referral may support your needs.

During Massage Therapy Awareness Week, we invite Manitobans to learn more about RMTs and their place within our broader healthcare community.

Different expertise. Your care at the centre. Better Care, Together.

Hear stories from Manitobans who’ve made massage therapy part of their regular wellness plan HERE.