Top 3 reasons to work as a Massage Therapist

Reason 1. Diverse Work Opportunities
There is an abundance of opportunity for trained massage therapists. You may work in a hospital, spa, hotel, or a doctor’s office, or set up an independent practice and manage your own hours, rates, and business structure. Running your own business allows you to work from home, set your own hours, and individualize your working space.
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Your Smart Career Move for a Slow Economy

From now until the rest of your days it is unlikely that you will ever meet someone who doesn't like receiving a massage. Old or young, rich or poor, we all enjoy the healing, pleasurable touch of an experienced masseuse. This might help explain why job opportunities for massage therapists are expected to increase nearly twice as much as the national average for other occupations.
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Which Is Better, Working at Home or on a Cruise Ship?

This seems like an impossible and improbable question for the millions of sorry individuals who work in gray cubicles across the country. But to a massage therapist, this is a decision that must be made daily. 64% of massage therapists are self-employed, meaning that they have the luxury of setting up studios in their homes, or wherever else they please. The remaining 36% work in hotels, spas, cruise ships, medical facilities, and fitness centers around the world. Imagine if your office was the Pacific Ocean. And instead of office politics and gossip, you spent every day listening to relaxing music as you helped patients and clients achieve total calm and spiritual centeredness.
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Widening Job Market for Massage Therapists

Once the province of Eastern medicine, massage therapy is finding its ways into the West in ways that might startle ancient practitioners who thought America would never change. In Louisville, for example, massage therapy aids doctors in their treatment of children fighting cancer. On the other extreme, residents in Cleveland are signing up for classes to learn to soothe their pets through a certified canine massage therapy practitioner.

Traditionally, massage therapists considered a narrow job market that included combined practice with chiropractors and acupuncturists. Or, they took their tables into spas, hotels, cruise ships, private massage clinics, resorts, and private gyms. During the dot-com era, the job market expanded to include seated massage for the army of coders and programmers that worked late into the night.

More recently, the jobs take massage therapists into alcohol and drug detoxification centers, hospice, osteoarthritis and chronic pain clinics, and pet arthritis treatment clinics. In the early 1990s, equine massage schools ramped up their training and, in a recent move, have added companion dog massage courses. read more...

Physical Therapist Schools

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, physical therapists held about 137,000 jobs in 2002. Doctors refer patients to physical therapists for rehabilitation from a wide range of physical problems and this number is increasing all the time as the baby boom generation starts to age. For this reason, employment of physical therapists is expected to increase faster than the average.

Physical Therapy Training
There are over 200 physical therapy schools in the USA. Over half of these offer physical therapy degrees at masters level, and just under half offer doctoral physical therapy degrees. Therapists must pass a licensure exam after physical therapy training. Your physical therapist training should include the following areas: