Failing
Massage Therapy
Schools
To students
going into the Massage Therapy field.
Work with Schools that are AMTA approved.
So you want to become a Good Massage Therapist. There are massage schools popping up across the United States and many do not meet basic standards on hands-on approach. Always, Always look for experience in the field. Many are teaching your way/my way approach to basic massage therapy, instead of basic approach. But what is the basic approach? The best approach would be gathering information from as many different sources as you can before you get started. Then and only then you may have a basic foundation on massage techniques. Most schools starting up use instructors without a good foundation or even knowing what their going to teach. It was said once that it takes at least 10-yrs to start understanding massage therapy. Some schools use therapist that have two to seven years of experience. Hmmm!
A three to four semester course should look something like this, taught from instructors that met requirements from that school and with additional training: Do you think it needs more or less?
1st
Semester
Basic Massage Techniques
Anatomy and Physiology 1
Professional Foundations & Practices Putting the Basic Massage
Techniques together
Chair Massage
Community Outreach
2nd Semester
Movement, Stretching & Exercise
Anatomy and Physiology 2
Special Techniques
Ice / Heat Applications
Basic Sports Massage
Student Clinic 1
Community Outreach
3rd Semester
(close to Neuromuscular Massage Therapy)
Clinical Massage Therapy 1
Kinesiology and Musculo-Skeletal Pathology 1
Clinical Massage Therapy 2
Kinesiology and Musculo-Skeletal Pathology 2
Student Clinic 2
Community Outreach
4th Semester
Clinical Massage Therapy 3
Kinesiology and Musculo-Skeletal Pathology 3
Clinical Understanding
Complementary Therapies
Introduction to Acupressure
Career Development
Student Clinic 3
Community Outreach
Here are a few questions to ask:
Owner/Operator/Administrator: Do they have 10 - 15 years of professional
experience?
Instructors: Do they have 10 - 15 years of experience teaching what they
are teaching?
Are they going to become AMTA approved versus just National approved?
Look around, check different schools and compare.
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