This course is designed to provide an exploration of how massage therapists represent their skills, via advertising, marketing, or social media, and how those representations can influence a client’s expectations. As Massage Therapy becomes more accepted as a form of complementary healthcare, we must understand the decision-making process a client uses to choose our modality over others and how these representations can play a part in a client’s healthcare, rehabilitation, mental health, and trauma. Our discussion will center on responsible representation of how our skills can truly benefit a client and when to acknowledge that our skills and services are not applicable to a situation.
When you finish this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss the need for massage therapists to present themselves in an appropriate manner and with proper education, experience and evidentiary backing, without overpromising or contradicting other methods of care.
- Explore how massage therapist's words, evaluations, and massage methods can influence a client's perspective of their entire treatment plan and ultimately influence their healthcare decisions.
- Discuss the responsible representation of how massage therapists skills can truly benefit a client and when to acknowledge that our skills and services are not applicable to a situation.
Mark Capriotti is a board certified licensed massage therapist with an advanced certification in sports massage. He is a neuromuscular therapy and sports massage instructor at the Pittsburgh School of Massage Therapy and operates a practice that specializes in providing massage to high-level collegiate and professional athletes who compete in the NFL, NHL, NCAA, WWE and WFA.
Course Expiration
Please note that you must complete each AMTA online learning course and pass the exam one year from the date of purchase. If you do not complete the course and pass the exam within one year, you will be required to re-purchase the course.
Online courses expire one year from the date of purchase. When a course expires, you will no longer have access to the course materials and will be required to re-purchase the course.
Course Approval Code(s)
LCEU0004623
Copyright
This course contains information that is proprietary. None of the material contained within this course may be used without the express written permission
of AMTA unless otherwise indicated in the course. As a reminder, before practicing any new modalities or techniques, check with your state’s massage therapy
regulatory authority to ensure they are within the state’s defined scope of practice for massage therapy.
Refunds
Online courses are non-refundable. AMTA will not cover fees incurred from duplicate payments, insufficient funds, stopped payments or credit/debit cards over
credit limits.