Vermont Massage Therapy Continuing Education

Vermont Massage CE Package – 24 Hours

• Introduction to Marketing for the Massage Therapist (4 hrs)
  To succeed in business, massage therapists must attract and retain a growing base of satisfied clients. This course will explore the components of marketing, list the benefits of competitor analysis, and discuss promotional strategies designed to help you grow your business.
• Medications & Massage Therapy Part I: Introduction to Pharmacology (4 hrs)
  Massage can be a highly effective treatment for many conditions however you can do harm if done incorrectly, also be aware of any medications including non-prescription and herbal supplements, as these can influence or be influenced by the massage.
• Introduction to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (1 hrs)
  This course will discuss Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and is designed to increase your awareness about this condition. Since touch can reactivate trauma, you should be aware that the condition exists and there are particular methods of massage therapy that address the special circumstances of individuals with PTSD. The course will provide information about how to identify PTSD and list several modalities that combine bodywork and psychotherapy.
• Pathology of Chronic Conditions for Massage Therapists (2 hrs)
  Massage is used to help reduce pain and in some reduce chronic symptoms of cerebral palsy, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome, so to help people get better therapists must understand the illness.
• Ethics for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (3 hrs)
  This course emphasizes the principles and standards of ethical practice for massage therapy and bodywork, and ethical issues that impact the professional in daily practice. The course includes steps to identify potential ethical conflicts, and strategies for ethical decision-making to avoid and resolve ethical issues before they become problematic. The components of informed consent, documentation and records maintenance, establishing boundaries, and collaboration with supervisors and colleagues for integrated healthcare, are detailed based on ethical standards of best practice.
• Human Trafficking in the United States: Foreign and Domestic Victims (4 hrs)
  Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal industries, so what steps can be taken if trafficking is suspected, what are the signs to look for, and what types of intervention are used to address it.
• Massage Therapy for Sports Injuries (4 hrs)
  This course is designed to familiarize massage therapists with the techniques most commonly used to treat sports injuries, the general terminology associated with sports injuries, the most common sports injuries, the anatomy and physiology involved, and the sports each injury is usually associated with. The course also reviews several tips for helping athletes avoid specific injuries. In several instances, learners will discover that massage therapy is contraindicated given the specifics of an athlete’s condition.
• Massage Therapy and the Stress Epidemic (1 hrs)

  The purpose of this course is to discuss the positive roleprofessional massage therapy can play in the stress epidemic in our modernculture. We will examine the negative physiological and biochemical processesthat occur in the body under stress and counterpoint them with the beneficialprocesses that occur in the body during massage. We will also look at thecultural symptoms that contribute to our collective stress and discuss thestatistics that qualify stress as a national epidemic.

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Comprehensive Guide for Massage Therapists (1 hrs)

  Thiscourse provides a comprehensive overview of carpal tunnel syndrome for massagetherapists. This overview allows the reader to gain greater knowledge ofanatomy, perspectives on how carpal tunnel syndrome affects individuals, aswell as specific bodywork methods to alleviate classic symptoms of thecondition.