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As the massage therapy industry continues to grow, now is an excellent time to start a career as a licensed massage therapist.

Through touch, a massage therapist works muscles for the purpose of pain treatment, de-stressing, rehabilitating injuries, and encouraging health and wellness.  Massage therapists have many rewarding options for employment including working for a spa, owning their own business, or collaborating with other health care professionals.  Benefits of being a massage therapist include flexibility, an increasing demand in the marketplace, improving people’s health, and a fantastic hourly wage.  Massage therapy is an $11 billion industry and the Bureau of Labor projects that employment for massage therapists will increase over the next several years.

Massage therapy courses include a study of anatomy, physiology organs and tissues, and business management.  Learn the latest massage techniques including Swedish massage, cranial-sacral massage, acupressure, hot stone therapy, and deep tissue massage.  More and more people are recognizing the benefits of massage in relieving body pain, boosting the immune system and lowering blood pressure, making it a profitable industry to become a part of.

Related areas of study to massage therapy include acupuncture, kinesiology, chiropractic, physical therapy, yoga instruction, and an exercise specialist program.

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