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Selecting Massage Therapy Continuing Education Classes

Selecting Massage Therapy Continuing Education Classes

By: Ariana Vincent, Ariana Institute, Austin, Texas

There are many wonderful opportunities in the massage community designed to deepen your educational experience by participating in a classroom environment utilizing kinesthetic hands-on techniques or by participating in interesting and informative online massage therapy CE courses.

Researching CE Requirements

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Added by Ariana Vincent, LMT, MTI, BCTMB on July 8, 2009 at 3:55pm — No Comments

Nurse Massage Therapists: An Introduction

It was at one time, a standard of practice in nursing to provide patients with the

comforts of massage. This allowed nurses time with the patient, satisfying the need for touch and allowing the patient the ability to heal themselves. Unfortunately with all increase in technology, the need for extra charting for fear of lawsuits and a nursing shortage, this has led massage to fall to the wayside and is no longer a part of our nursing curriculum or daily patient care.

Approximately 1 in… Continue

Added by Denise Leon R.N.,B.S.,L.M.T. on July 6, 2009 at 4:09pm — 2 Comments