Firefighters: Massachusetts canceling civil-service exams following court case

(Bostonherald.com ^ | 11/11/2022 | Sean Philip Cotter

[massmike]

The state has canceled the upcoming fire civil-service promotional exam and “will not score” the recent statewide exam for police in light of a recent Boston-based court case.

The court case in question is Tatum et al v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a suit from several Black or Hispanic police officers filed back in 2009 as they claimed that the civil-service sergeants’ promotional exam disadvantaged minority test takers, leading to lower scores and therefore delayed or missed promotions through the centralized and highly regimented process used by many police and fire departments.

[reformedliberal]

I know how you feel. I am over 100 miles from the nearest Integrated, Naturopath, or Holistic physician.

I bless our quiet area and prefer living out in the sticks, but it makes a lot of things from medical practitioners to shopping beyond the basics, difficult.

As to the NMT, start asking around. NMT is a years-long series of courses. Practitioners certify by each course, which correspond to specific anatomical areas. Each course is expensive and multi-part, involving traveling to seminars for anywhere from a weekend to 4 days of hands on instruction. Therapists, PTs and even some chiropractors take these while also working. Your therapist might have had a few seminars, at least and might know others.

The techniques trickle down into the basic massage CEU courses, as well, often in abbreviated, but usually still effective forms. So therapists pick up techniques for specific problems and you never know what someone who is not certified might have still managed to pick up along the way.