The Therapeutic Massage School Training Center

With the increasing popularity, it is not very difficult to find massage therapy schools in California but if you are looking for a properly certified therapeutic massage school, then Massage Center is the perfect destination for you.

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The school is approved by the California state and it aims a making a great massage therapist out of you.

Massage Center is a school which believes in excellence. Excellence comes when the teachers are able to concentrate on every student and deliver the best to each one of them. This is only possible if the teacher student ratio is very good. Massage Center is one of those therapeutic schools which provides a great teacher to student ratio. This is possible because it can maintain an average of 12 students per class. This makes interaction in the class a very important aspect of massage education.

Massage Center is owned and operated by Dr. Helle Leap. Dr. leap has 20 years of experience as a Chiropractor and she understands that massage is something which relies on a number of other things than just fancy scientific tittle tattle. This is the reason that the course offered at Massage Center comprises of a major part of practical exposure. The students are a expected to practice massage as their education proceeds.

The institution offers a number of massage courses. The main massage course offered by this institution however is the 300 hour long course which provides you the best value for the money that you pay as the fees. The course covers Swedish massage as its primary component. It is taught for 110 hours. Students spend 36 hours studying anatomy and physiology of the human body. They also spend eight hours studying business practice and ethics for eight hours and career experience of four hours.

Two hours in this course are dedicated to the study of nutrition since healthy eating is a primary component of healthy living. Since this is a therapeutic massage school, the students also study clinical studies for 75 hours. The rest 65 hours are dedicated to the study of elective classes. There are a number of elective courses to choose from. The students have to choose in such manner that the total hours spent in studying electives makes up 65 hours minimum.

The courses offered as electives include but are not limited to sport massage which is taught for 27 hours, Reiki which is covered in 18 hours or deep tissue massage which is covered in 16 hours. Other electives that you can choose from include pregnancy (8 hours) and Infant massage (4 hours).

This therapeutic massage school is also considering launch of online courses in massage which shall turn it into an online massage therapy school.