A Question for Massage Therapists?
Hi. I am in my mid 20s with a worthless BA degree, own taught English abroad, bartended, and now I'm looking for a actual career. How long does it take to get certified? Can I study the pedantic stuff on my own and just pass tests beforehand getting to practical learning? What are the career prospects? Is it hard to find a work afterwards? Is it possible to advance in this career. For example: if I needed to go on to become a physical therapist in a few years, would my mould therapy education count for anything? What other careers can you branch out into slickly, with relatively short transitional study? Nursing? Gym teaching? I am fluent in 3 language, would that make me more marketable in a hotel? Would that be a good item? How much can I expect to make? Is it overall a stable career? If I am going to go into it, I want to run it very seriously. Thank you everyone.
Answers: depends on your area. Each city may have its own requirements. Some areas require 100 hours of training and others it's 500. You also entail to decide if you want to be independent or work at a clinic.
My husband I I went through a night program contained by school in San Diego that lasted for in the region of a year. We took many different types of courses from Swedish, Asian, Sports, about the body & spa. My husband now works one hours of darkness a week at a clinic as a hobby (Massage Envy). I don't practice at all.
This is really hard work and no one get rich - they get by on what is paid. When you work in a clinic they touch all the details of sheets, clients, etc.. but they take a chunk.
Ask yourself, "what do I want" and remember that no matter how noteworthy massage is, people consider it a luxury and clinic appointments and TIPS are down. Source(s): personal experience -- GOOD LUCK!
As far as transitioning to PT, dont' expect your massage psychiatric help certification to count much towards it. You might get some credit towards anatomy and physiology, but even in programs where on earth MTs take gross human anatomy, it still doesn't usually cover the concepts you need for PT school.
Sorry I cannot answer the other question for you. However, what you may want to consider is that the current state of the economy may find many MTs without much work. Discretionary spending is the first entity to diminish.
If I were in your situation and needed to make money within order to go to PT school, I'd consider nursing...tremendous opportunity next to only a two year education in plentiful cases. You'll also get some of the courses you need for PT school such as biology and chemistry. You newly might get more courses that would count than you would becoming a PTA. You'd still have to take some extra classes to eventually enter graduate institution, but you'd be further into the game as an RN.
Nursing, as a job, is also very flexible and would allow you to work while completing the rest of your PT prerequisites.
If two years is too much to invest for you stale the top, I'd even consider becoming a patient care technician. Depending on your state, you can become a certified nursing assistant in as little as 6 weeks and can eventually train on the opportunity to transition from CNA to PCT. Not a whole lot of money involved as a PCT, but reliable and stable employment with a lot of fleixilibility and opportunity. Source(s): I am a PT
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How long it take will depend on what state you live in as each state has different license requirements but for the most part probably about 500 hours of training or about 6 months to a year for classes. There is one distance erudition program that allows you to study on your own and then work with a local massage psychoanalyst to learn the hands on part.Most rub therapists start their own business so you can basically control your own destiny by how much you decide to put into it. Massage arts school doesn't teach you the business part though so you have to swot up as you go. Even in this economy stroke therapists who are good are really busy. People are stressed out.
Jobs are really low paying starting at $15 an hour. You can't work more than 25 hours usually because of the physical demands. Source(s): http://thebodyworker.com/massage_state_b...
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