{"id":73519,"date":"2022-11-11T10:33:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T15:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/?p=73519"},"modified":"2023-01-17T10:34:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T15:34:38","slug":"2022-benefit-dinner-the-massage-therapy-foundation-raises-61508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/2022-benefit-dinner-the-massage-therapy-foundation-raises-61508\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Benefit Dinner: The Massage Therapy Foundation raises $61,508"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Last week<\/span>\u00a0in\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-CA\">Montreal, the 12th edition of the Fondation de la massoth\u00e9rapie&#8217;s benefit dinner was held in a sumptuous reception room at the Omni Hotel. The various fundraising activities (ticket sales, auction, raffle) raised $61,508. Manon Choini\u00e8re, PhD, full professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, gave a remarkable speech on chronic pain and the effectiveness of massage therapy in a multidisciplinary approach. This talk is timely for the National Chronic Pain Awareness Week of November 6-12, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Since its inception in 2010, the Foundation has provided more than 30,000 free massage therapy treatments to vulnerable individuals. In addition to people with chronic pain, the Foundation has focused on people with cancer, mental health disorders, and more recently on seniors in long-term care facilities and women and children who are victims of domestic violence. Developments are also underway with First Nations communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Since the administrative costs are absorbed by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise des massoth\u00e9rapeutes, which set up the Fondation de la massoth\u00e9rapie, the donations collected go to people in need. All the beneficiaries are unanimous: &#8220;massage therapy provides an incredible sense of well-being!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/extranet.fqm.qc.ca\/civicrm\/mailing\/url?u=12179&amp;qid=\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.fondationfm.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week\u00a0in\u00a0Montreal, the 12th edition of the Fondation de la massoth\u00e9rapie&#8217;s benefit dinner was held in a sumptuous reception room at the Omni Hotel. The various fundraising activities (ticket sales, auction, raffle) raised $61,508. Manon Choini\u00e8re, PhD, full professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, gave a remarkable speech on chronic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73520,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73519\/revisions\/73520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}