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Laura Allen's Blog – February 2011 Archive (3)

Competency vs. Hours

I have long desired to see the standards for massage therapy education raised in my state and across the nation. Here in North Carolina, the requirement is only 500 hours. That varies in the US, from the unregulated states that have no requirements at all, to the 1000 hours required by New York, Nebraska, and Puerto Rico. The rest fall somewhere in between.

Our neighbors to the north in Canada have a few provinces that are unregulated, but those that are regulated have a much higher…

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Added by Laura Allen on February 20, 2011 at 8:14am — 13 Comments

Pay in Massage Therapy: What's for Real?

I just finished reading AMTA’s 2011 Massage Profession Research Report. It’s 66 pages of information that was created from several surveys conducted by AMTA and supplemented by government statistics.

The report covers many topics, including consumer demographics, information about massage schools and their students, where massage is fitting into the general scheme of health care in the US, and statistics on the practitioners… Continue

Added by Laura Allen on February 13, 2011 at 6:29am — 1 Comment

Report from Federation of Associations of Regulatory Boards Meeting

This past weekend, I attended the annual FARB conference in New Orleans. FARB, the Federation of Associations of Regulatory Boards was formed in 1974. Members come together for the sharing of information; public boards of all types are welcome to join, as are industry supporters such as testing companies that provide exams to the membership and the law firms that represent the Boards. The… Continue

Added by Laura Allen on February 1, 2011 at 8:30pm — No Comments