A comprehensive guide to all aspects of prenatal, labor and postpartum care.
Program also available entirely online.
Learn how massage reduces anxiety and physical ailments, unlocks and frees tissue memories, eases panic disorders and can reduce postoperative pain. Based on four original Massage Professionals Update articles.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Also accessible as an MP3 downloadable file.
Discover types of arthritic conditions, typical symptoms and how massage can assist in easing pain associated with arthritis through this course based on the original articles of the Massage Professionals Update.
This is an entirely online CE program
Also accessible as an MP3 downloadable file.
Grow your practice with chair massage, bring massage into the workplace learn how to avoid injury with onsite massage. Based on four original Massage Professionals Update articles.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Learn about basic business structures, preparing a simple business plan, legal requirements and record keeping, plus options to consider for your future in the profession of massage therapy.
Program also available entirely online.
Through the original articles of the Massage Professionals Update, gain an understanding of the massage therapist's role regarding breast cancer and skin cancer as well as protocols for massage therapy.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Also accessible as an MP3 downloadable file.
Deepen your understanding of pathology from a body/mind approach.
Program also available entirely online.
Earn credits through the Institute's Massage Professionals Update articles. Learn about categories of pain, regional pain syndrome and how massage therapists can affect the client.
This is an entirely online CE program.
To study pain and its alleviation is to journey into the relationships between the body, mind and spirit. Get a quick review of the most essential points all massage therapists need to know to be more grounded, compassionate and effective in their work with people in chronic pain.
Program also available entirely online.
Go beyond relaxation massage, expand your skills and integrate your knowledge of anatomy with therapeutic massage.
Program also available entirely online.
Learn how massage can affect specific pathologies and client complaints including recognizing alopecia areata, techniques for alleviating constipation, TCM meridians for eye health, peripheral arterial disease, ganglion cysts, vital steps to working on clients with cancer, safety concerns for clients with diabetes and how alcohol effects massage and bodywork.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Identify the causes of and how to address Achilles tendonitis, shin splints and iliotibial band syndrome as well as how massage can improve athletic performance through this CE program based on original articles from the Massage Professionals Update.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Two course package that covers communicable diseases - Hepatitis and HIV/AIDS.
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Examine the "how and why" of massage and bodywork communication, documentation, insurance billing and ethics.
With Cranial-Sacral Therapy techniques, a trained practitioner can balance the rhythm of the cerebral-spinal pulse and treat numerous ailments.
Program also available entirely online. Closed captioning available with online video.
Introduce yourself to the history of cupping, theory, cautions and contraindications as well as some cupping variations through this course developed from original Massage Professionals Update articles.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Examine over 30 different disorders and common sports injuries from a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective and discuss the role of cupping in treating each condition.
Learn how to recognize the symptoms and risk factors associated with Deep Vein Thrombosis and to distinguish a muscular problem from a more dangerous scenario.
Program also available entirely online.
Launching and growing a successful solo or group practice can be a daunting task, unless you have a guide to help you actualize your vision.
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Discover ways to assist clients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), relieving heartburn symptoms, common digestive ailments and ways to stimulate the triple burner meridian which metabolizes the fluids of the body through this course based on original articles from the Massage Professionals Update.
This is an entirely online CE program.
The makeup of the United States is ever expanding, as such one must become more aware of the differences in the clients we serve in order to provide the best care. This course will assist you in your learning continuum of cultural sensitivity to competence.
Program also available entirely online.
Earn credits through the Institute's Massage Professionals Update articles. Learn tips for maintaining essential oils, choosing oils for digestive ailments, essential oils for reducing sciatica as well as effective treatments for head lice.
This is an entirely online CE program.
This is a 1-hour ethics refresher course for practitioners who need to quickly review the basics related to NCBTMB Standard V: Roles and Boundaries.
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This short course gives massage therapists and bodyworkers an opportunity to reflect on their own professionalism and several important ethical considerations that relate to the health professions.
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Reflect on your professionalism while reviewing several ethical issues within the massage therapy and bodywork profession.
Program also available entirely online.
Examine key legal and ethical concepts related to massage and bodywork including professional roles and boundaries in the health field.
Program also available entirely online.
Address the challenges involved in caring for people who are ill, injured or dying.
Program also available entirely online.
A concise review of all nine parts of the NCBTMB's Standard V: Professional Roles and Boundaries in the NCBTMB Standards of Practice.
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This program provides an overview of professionalism and scope of practice for massage therapists from the legal, educational, competency and self-accountability standpoints.
Program also available entirely online.
This course reviews NCBTMB Standard I: Professionalism and Standard V: Roles and Boundaries in detail and helps you consider how they relate to your practice.
Program also available entirely online.
This is a short, concise review of the main legal and ethical concepts related to professional roles and boundaries in massage and bodywork today.
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Expand your understanding of ethics. Learn how to build a safer therapeutic environment for yourself and your client.
Program also available entirely online.
Provides a structure for ethical decision-making that will serve your clients, yourself, your profession and your community.
Program also available entirely online.
For convenience and savings, you can enroll in our set of three courses required by the Florida Board of Massage for license renewal. Includes Ethics: Therapeutic Relationships, Law & Legal Issues (Florida), and Medical Errors.
Programs also available entirely online.
You have a choice with our second set of three courses required by the Florida Board of Massage for license renewal. Includes Ethics: Practice Management, Law & Legal Issues (Florida), and Medical Errors.
Program also available entirely online.
Set 3 includes three courses required by the Florida Board of Massage for license renewal - Ethics: Professional Conduct, Preventing Medical Errors, and Law & Legal Issues (Florida).
Set 4 includes three courses required by the Florida Board of Massage for license renewal - Ethics: Therapeutic Environment, Preventing Medical Errors, and Law & Legal Issues (Florida).
Set 5 includes three courses required by the Florida Board of Massage for license renewal - Ethics: NCBTMB Standard V, Medical Errors, and Law & Legal Issues (Florida).
Set 6 includes three courses required by the Florida Board of Massage for license renewal - Ethics: Roles and Boundaries, Medical Errors, and Law & Legal Issues (Florida).
Earn credits through the Institute's Massage Professionals Update articles. Based on four original articles, recognize how to address heel spurs, techniques for plantar fasciitis, easing discomfort of Morton's Toe through massage, as well as how to detect plantar warts.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Based on original articles from the Massage Professionals Update, learn 8 common medical issues and their massage implications for geriatric clients, effective techniques and 5 precautions for frail elders, how to identify the early stages of a stroke, and how massage can be used for stroke rehabilitation.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Headaches are extremely common and nearly everyone has had this type of pain on occasion. In some cases the pain is more frequent and debilitating. Discover ways to assist your clients with recurring headaches.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Identify ways to prevent burnout, how to apply healthy boundaries with clients, important outcall safety issues, tips for improving both your mind/body as well as your clients' and more.
This is an entirely online CE program.
HIV infected persons are seeking healing modalities that enhance the physical, psychological and spiritual aspects of their being. Provide your massage skills with greater awareness and sensitivity for people who have HIV infection.
Program also available entirely online.
This ground-breaking program contributes a depth of wisdom and education that supports anyone working with the seriously ill or the dying.
Program also available entirely online.
Based on four original MPU articles, learn about hypertension and how it is impacted by bodywork and whether hypertension is an indication or contraindication for massage, as well as how massage can affect cholesterol levels and the impact of statins on massage.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Discover how antibiotics may impact bodywork, staph infection concerns for massage therapists, proper hand cleansing procedures, as well as situations that may require medical gloves in this CE course based on original articles from the Massage Professionals Update.
This is an entirely online CE program.
With over 6 million Americans infected with one or more forms of viral hepatitis, practitioners must understand the impact this growing problem has on both their clients and their practice.
Program also available entirely online.
This course also covers information with regard to universal precautions for healthcare workers and implications for the massage therapist.
Program also available entirely online.
Using the side posture primarily, the Earth Massage routine employs deep, compressive techniques that soften adhesions and muscle fibrosis, reducing the activity of myofascial trigger points, increasing the mobility of connective tissue and joints, and improving posture.
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The Fire Massage routine presented in the video integrates massage techniques from Sports Massage, Active Resistance Stretching, Neurolymphatic Reflex Massage, Breath Work, Deep Tissue Therapy and Swedish Massage.
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The Spirit Massage is designed to quiet the mind and to get the receiver in touch with their own inner healing rhythms.
Program also available entirely online.
Through text, photos, case studies and sample forms, explore a chair massage expert's recommendations for equipment, communication, documentation and body mechanics.
In this course, you are presented with a detailed view of the laws and rules of the Florida Board of Massage Therapy and how they apply to the massage therapy business.
Review four tactics that prolong back pain relief, how clients can prevent low back pain, ways Neuromuscular Therapy can assist in relieving lumbar spasms, as well as postural evaluations through this course based on original articles from the Massage Professionals Update.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Also accessible as an MP3 downloadable file.
Learn how to continue to thrive during tough economic times with suggestions for improving profits through this short course based on the Massage Professionals Update original articles.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Discover easy, affordable ways to communicate your unique message to your ideal clients, using the four organizing steps described in this course.
Program also available entirely online.
Earn credits through the Institute's Massage Professionals Update articles. Based on four original articles, get suggestions on expanding your practice, basics on offering retail products and learn key components of soft selling techniques.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Learn the concepts underlying massage and bodywork for clients who have edema, including an overview of lymph drainage and important steps to preventing lymphedema.
Program also available entirely online.
Discover how you can assist clients in alleviating frequent headaches and neck pain through video and text with authors Sandy Fritz and Leon Chaitow.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Responsible for over 90% of all reported backaches, "non-specific" backache has no actual associated pathology. Discover the evolution of "non-specific" backache as well as assessment and treatment methods ideal for use in combination with massage therapy derived from physical therapy, osteopathic and chiropractic sources.
Program also available entirely online.
Take each course when it fits your needs. You may take some courses now and save the other courses for your next renewal period if you wish.
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This course is designed to give a brief overview of medical errors and how they affect massage therapists.
Program also available entirely online.
Learn how to eliminate pain and restore motion by applying sustained pressure into myofascial restrictions.
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It is common for nerve problems to coexist with myofascial tension and pain. Learn the anatomy of the nerves and numerous tests and techniques designed to free restrictions along the nerve path and normalize tissue function.
Program also available entirely online.
Earn CE through the Institute's Massage Professionals Update original articles and learn the benefits of bodywork for epileptic clients, tools to help people with dementia, benefits of massage on Parkinson's Disease, as well as the value of touch therapy for autistic clients.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Based on the work of Drs. Janet Travell and Raymond Nimmo, these techniques are appropriate for medical massage as well as sports massage applications.
Program also available entirely online.
Energize your practice and take it to a new level by following the suggestions in this course.
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The Orthopedic Assessment program will walk you through a logical progression of testing that will reveal underlying pathologies with crystal clarity.
Program also available entirely online.
Learn important evidence-based approaches to safe, effective and cost-effective orthopedic massage.
Learn key concepts about how to recognize and confidently respond to soft tissue and movement therapy indications, precautions and contraindications related to the digestive and endocrine systems.
Program also available entirely online.
How does your client's medication affect your treatment plan? Learn the cautions, contraindications, effects of massage therapy and appropriate strokes to use based on the medications your client has been prescribed.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Add knowledge of the powerful energy healing modality, Polarity Therapy, to your practice. In this course, you will learn the three currents of energy, the three modes of touch and the techniques for balancing the flow of the body's energy currents in various areas of the body.
Understand the symptoms of PTSD, the importance of the therapeutic relationship with clients suffering from PTSD, how aromatherapy complements massage for trauma, as well as how to help clients trust your touch. This program is based on original articles posted in the Massage Professionals Update newsletter.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Are you aching from using your upper body more than you should (and using your lower body less than you should)? In "Pour, Don't Push," you will learn how to use your breath and body weight as your primary tools so you can work more effectively and with greater ease. This unique massage continuing education course will help you replace boredom and burnout with love for your work again. You'll be a happier and more effective massage therapist.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Earn credits through the Institute's Massage Professionals Update articles. Learn how to differentiate between a caution and contraindication when working with high-risk, pregnant clients, assist clients in helping colicky infants, how myofascial release can improve many childhood problems, and discover how massage can help aggressive children.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Learn why medical errors contribute to high health-care costs and why it's so important to design your work to increase safety for your clients and yourself.
Program also available entirely online.
Two course package that provides all you need to fulfill your NCBTMB ethics requirement.
Earn credits through the Institute's Massage Professionals Update articles. Based on four original articles, review the history and origin of Reiki, various Reiki hand positions, discover how Reiki can be used in a hospital setting and its ability in reducing the effects of physical and psychological trauma.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Research is scary for many of us. We are unsure of how to begin, where to go for information and what qualifies as a 'good' source. We may not fully understand the different types of research or how to go about formulating a research question, never mind designing a research study. This course will give you the basics in terminology and an overview of concepts and theories behind the subject of research.
Program also available entirely online.
Two course package that provides all you need to fulfill your NCBTMB ethics requirement.
Based on four original Massage Professionals Update articles, learn techniques for removing scar tissue, how to properly identify rashes, avoiding dry skin from frequent hand washing, as well as massage for sunburn healing.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Discover the impact genital herpes has on a massage therapy practice, how massage can help as a preventative therapy to Shingles, if massage therapy is safe for clients with cellulitis and precautions for poison ivy. This course is based on Massage Professionals Update's original articles.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Through this CE course based on original MPU articles, learn about the benefits and challenges of working in a spa, how to integrate spa services into your practice, the impact color has in your massage office, as well as increasing business through at-home spa parties.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Take care of yourself naturally. Learn easy, effective ways to support and strengthen your immune system through nutrition, dietary supplements, herbs and lifestyle choices.
Program also available entirely online.
You will learn a complete, basic hot stone massage, a cool moonstone facial massage and six advanced restorative protocols covering a variety of dysfunctions.
Program also available entirely online.
Deepen your understanding of how to reduce chronic stress including how to manage your own stress and how to communicate the ways your services help your clients experience stress relief.
Program also available entirely online.
Let Sean Riehl break down how to conduct a full-body range of motion assessment that you can do with every client. Your clients will love this work because they can see where they are stuck and when you retest at the end of the session they can see how much your work has helped.
Program also available entirely online.
Expand your professional repertoire through teaching prenatal massage to expectant couples. As a bodyworker teaching partner massage, you can affect the well-being and health of not just the mother, but the unborn child, and help strengthen the family bonds at the same time.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Discover how you can begin assisting those clients diagnosed with fibromyalgia.
This is an entirely online CE program.
Learn how psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) validates the mind/body link so you can better support your clients and help them facilitate positive changes that last over time.
Program also available entirely online.
A depth of experience and sensitivity for working with the seriously ill.
Program also available entirely online.
Do you know how to guard yourself and your clients from infectious diseases? Learn how in this short and clear course.
Program also available entirely online.
Examine the results of current massage therapy-related research and apply the results to your practice.
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