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Posted On: 01/24/2010 23:50:01

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 question which I am regularly asked deserves an honest answer. "How do you find the standard of massage therapist here compared with elsewhere?" A diplomatically evasive answer usually depending on where I am when the question is asked allows an escape from what could prove an otherwise embarrassing response. The truth is that standards of training in the UK compare badly when contrasted with some European countries and more notably with what is found in North America.

In the USA itself standards also vary, since individual states demand quite large differences in their training requirements ranging from 900 hours to none at all, and almost none of the US standards equate with what is generally agreed to be the highest standard of all - the Canadian which itself is not uniform but which is uniformly better than anywhere else. In Canada British Columbia at any rate there exists a 2200 hour training requirement with plans in place for over 3000 hours of class time.

Think about that as you ponder your training choices in the UK, where several hundred hours in class to learn massage is regarded as a pretty intense level of training and many courses function on under 100 hours!

Now it is true that there is massage and massage, and that training requirement for what can be termed 'wellness relaxation massage' where the therapeutic intervention component is either totally absent or minimal does not need to be as lengthy or broad as a massage training which focuses on preparing the therapist to handle specific problems recent trauma for example. In the latter case a high level of clinical expertise is needed both in assessment, evaluation and diagnosis as well as in the acquisition of a wide range of bodywork skills which extend beyond basic traditional, or Swedish, massage methodology.

Canada seems to have sorted itself out in this regard and their standards of training and practice are second to none, and should be examined by legislators and all UK schools teaching massage – as well as by prospective massage therapists.

Other initiatives deserve mention, for example the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork NCBTMB, which has been established in the USA and which evaluates a core level of knowledge in therapists initially a voluntary process but slowly becoming a requirement. NCBTMB does not assess current skills but helps to weed out those whose training in core subjects anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, etc is inadequate.

In the UK what do we have? There exists the possibility of National Vocational Qualifications NVQ standards becoming a benchmark.This is the nearest equivalent to the US model, and it is to be hoped that its standards will be high and not reduced to the lowest common denominator, although this remains to be seen.dongguan massage massage dongguan massage in dongguan dongguan escort escort dongguan escort in dongguan


























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