Rachel Romanelli, LMT, BCTMB, CLT, is an experienced massage therapist, educator, clinic owner, and healthcare advocate who has spent more than 29 years advancing clinical practice, education, and professional standards within the massage therapy field.
Rachel attended the University of Montana in Missoula before returning to her hometown of Seattle, Washington, where she completed her massage therapy education at the Seattle Massage School, Greenlake Campus. Her career has spanned private practice, integrative health clinics, and hospital-based care. She has developed and supervised hospital-based clinical internship programs in Missoula, Montana, and provided inpatient massage therapy services in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her clinical work is currently based in her private practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A defining thread throughout Rachel’s career has been her commitment to bridging hands-on clinical care with education, accountability, and measurable outcomes. While developing hospital-based clinical internship programs, she identified a persistent gap in massage therapy: meaningful outcomes were occurring every day, yet there was no practical, standardized way to capture those results across practitioners and settings. Her early work designing data collection processes for clinical interns became the foundation for deeper engagement in human-based clinical research.
That work ultimately led to collaboration with Gordon Hilleque of Result Flow Operating System (RFOS), resulting in the development of APROS.io (Applied Practice Results Operating System) which was designed specifically for real-world clinical environments and to allow practitioners to capture outcomes without disrupting workflow.
Rachel has been collaborating with the MassageNet Case Series Study effort since early 2025 and has demonstrated how APROS.io will be used within the study protocol to collect data at MassageNet convening sessions, including at the IMTRC 2025 special session which kicked off the study development. Incorporating APROS.io into the study protocol has addressed practical challenges inherent to conducting research in practice settings and Rachel is excited her work is making a valuable contribution to actualizing the launch of MassageNet’s very first, internally-devised research study.