Massage Therapy Student

This section is for you, the massage therapy student. Learning massage therapy takes a very special, caring person.

You have to enjoy being with and helping people. Your hands will touch people in a deliberate, healing and therapeutic way. You will place your hands on many people--young and old, healthy and sick, rich and poor, people of all colors, shapes, and sizes. There is no room for prejudice of any type.

If you are retired, or preparing to retire, you may want to consider becoming a massage therapist. It would be great as a part time job to supplement retirement income.

To be a massage therapist, you just have to have the desire to help others. Helping others gives you a great feeling, especially when you relieve clients of some of their pain and suffering.

Learning massage therapy means the student will study a massive amount of anatomy and physiology. Basically, anatomy and physiology means you will learn body parts and how they work, right on down to the cells of your organs.

Part of your class will deal with anatomy and physiology. Part of it will deal with learning how to actually give a massage. Students of massage therapy pair up and first one is the client while the other is the massage therapist and then they switch.

The massage therapy student client changes into a hospital gown and receives the type of massage the instructor teaches that day. After a few weeks, the students get very good at giving massage.

It is a lot of fun when you are the student client getting the massage. A lot of time is spent on learning how to massage the back. Everyone enjoys getting a professional back rub.

The student, while learning massage therapy, must practice the strokes learned in class at home on others, especially concentrating on how to practice massage for the state exam,(if your state has a practical exam, which is performing massage on a client).

Another important task for the student is to learn how to study for massage therapy tests. You will probably have them at least once a week. Anatomy and physiology covers a lot of material and you learn about all of the body systems, with special emphasis on the muscles.

You will also learn what and how to study for the massage therapy written state exam. There are many good videos and study books that can help.

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