Facts To Understand Before Making Massage
Therapy Your Career. Massage therapists have a
very unique type of job. They largely work
independently and many people rely on massage
therapy in order to keep their everyday lives
in order.
In this article, well relay some facts and
statistics about you regarding massage therapy
as a career so you can get a better idea of
what the field has to offer for you.
An overwhelming majority of massage
therapists are female. Statistics provided by
the American Massage Therapy
Association have shown that
approximately eighty five percent of licensed
massage therapists are female and only fifteen
percent are male.
Massage therapy can take place in many
different settings. Some massage therapists
work out of their home, some out of an office,
and others prefer to work on-site, traveling to
their clients location in order to offer them
some form of relief.
Statistics have shown that approximately
forty four percent of all licensed massage
therapists work on-site at their clients
location. By comparison, thirty nine percent of
licensed therapists work in their own
office.
Also, twenty two percent of therapists
reported that they work in a salon or spa,
twenty one percent reported that they worked in
a health care clinic, seventeen percent
reported that they worked in an office with
other massage therapists, and nine percent
stated that they performed massage therapy in a
health club setting.
Massage therapy is a flexible type of
occupation that one can take on either
part-time or full-time. A survey conducted in
2005 by the American Massage Therapy
Association showed that approximately
thirty eight percent of all working massage
therapists worked full time (considered at
least seventeen hours of actual massage per
week) and sixty two percent of massage
therapists worked merely part time.
If youre thinking about becoming a massage
therapist as a career, you will definitely have
plenty of options when it comes to choosing a
school at which to begin your training. There
are currently over 1,000 different massage
therapy schools in the United States alone!
In order to successfully become a
professional massage therapist, there are three
separate steps that you will need to
undergo.
First off, you will have to choose a
massage school and become accepted to it.
Massage therapy schools usually tend to
require a high school degree in order to
enroll.
After that, you will need to become
nationally certified as a massage
therapist, and then you will need to obtain
a license or meet another type of
requirement through the state in which you
plan on practicing massage.
Only then will you be fully prepared for
beginning a career as a massage therapist.
Theraputic Massage Terms and
Facts.
Infants and
premature babies in particular
experience great benefits from
regular massage.
Touch is very
important to a baby and being
given the level of attention a
baby massage requires means
that they also tend to grow up
to be more confident and
secure.
A baby massage
should be very very light to
the touch. Never apply
pressure.
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People of all ages are trained as massage
therapists. More than fifty percent of the
members of the American Massage Therapy
Association are between the ages of thirty
five and fifty four, with a median age of
forty four.
Hopefully this article helped you to learn
some things that you didnt know regarding
massage therapy as a career. Work hard, and
you too will be able to become a
professional massage therapist!
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