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Receive a total of 43.5 CE of Massage Therapy Continuing Education Courses
All courses are NCBTMB Approved
$89.00
Muscle Injuries
4 Massage Continuing Education Credits
Category: Science
This massage continuing education course is truly needed for any massage therapist since many patients come in for some type of muscle injury. This course goes over every thing you need to know about muscle injuries. Learn about the different grades of muscle strains, muscle contusions and cramps.
Understand how the repair process occurs and its phases. Learn about the different steps patients/clients can take to speed up the healing process. Finish four massage continuing education units online today.
Pelvic Girdle Anatomy, Physiology, & Injuries
4 Massage Continuing Education Credits
Category: Science
Impress your patients with your knowledge of the pelvic girdle! Every thing you need to know about pelvic girdle anatomy, physiology, and injuries are included in this course. The pelvic girdle is extremely important because of the protection and support it provides the lower organs, such as the urinary bladder, the reproductive organs, and the developing fetus in a pregnant woman. This structure also carries the weight of the body from the vertebral column. It is our center of gravity and involved heavily in all walking functions. Finish 4 Massage Therapy CEUs online with this course from the comfort of your home.
Sports Injuries
4 Massage Continuing Education Credits
Category: Science
General knowledge of sports injuries and understanding how they occur is key in the massage therapy profession. This continuing education course will help you to communicate effectively with your clients that receive treatment for sports related injuries, which in turn can help lead them to a better treatment plan. Your knowledge in this subject can help provide a better experience at your massage therapy practice by allowing you to adapt your techniques to specific injuries. This massage CEU course is highly recommended.
Rotator Cuff Injuries Anatomy, Physiology, & Injuries
4 Massage Continuing Education Credits
Category: Science
Rotator cuff injuries are very common and can be caused by overuse, repetitive motion, or due to falls. This massage therapy continuing education course will refresh your knowledge about anatomy and physiology of the rotator cuff and will help you understand how and when people injure these muscles. This course is also key in your communication with your clients and will help understand your clients health issues. Give you patient a better experience with this course.
Key Topics In Healthcare Ethics
3 Massage Continuing Education Credits
Category: Ethics
This course counts for 3 CE hours in the ethics requirement, which is mandated for many states. In this massage therapy CE course, we discuss a variety of hot topics healthcare providers and massage therapists alike should have a basic understanding of in order to successfully navigate the landscape of healthcare ethics, laws, rules, patient/client rights and morals in the industry today. Complete your ethics requirement today with this interesting and hassle free CE course!
Professional Ethics & Boundaries
1 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credits
Category: Ethics
This course will discuss in detail 6 very important facets of professional ethics: Patient rights, HIPAA, nondiscrimination, documentation & record keeping, professional boundaries, and public ethics.
Sexual Boundaries Part 1
.5 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credits
Category: Ethics
The purpose of this course is to educate the therapist on professional boundaries and to identify conduct that may cross this line. Additionally, this course seeks to explain the negative implications of an intimate relationship between a massage therapist and client, and potential legal ramifications. Additionally, this course will discuss tips to establish and maintain a professional relationships while in practice. Additional topics to be discussed include, boundary training, real life scenarios and outcomes of boundary violations, opinions from though leaders about sexual boundary issues, defining boundaries, and boundary violation prevention.
Massage Therapy Injuries
2.5 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credits
Category: Health Care Massage
The purpose of this course is to understand the different types of injuries typically acquired in the massage therapy profession and how to prevent them. Key subjects such as self-care to prevent injuries, musculoskeletal symptoms, injuries among professional massage/bodywork practitioners, tendonitis, thoracic outlet syndrome, nerve impingement injury, carpal tunnel, body positioning, shoulder/neck/back pain, tenosynovitis, hand and arm care tips, and more are discussed.
Understanding Breast Cancer
2 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credits
Category: Clinical/Medical Settings
The key goal of the “Understanding Breast Cancer” Massage CEU course is for you to be able to identify the risk factors, presentation, treatment, symptoms, of breast cancer and how knowing this information is applicable in the the health care setting. The purpose of this course is to provide the student a well rounded knowledge of breast cancer.
Brain Disorders
2 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credits
Category: Science
This course discusses a variety of prevalent brain disorders and conditions that have an effect on the brain. Key topics include the science behind cerebrovascular disease, ischemic stroke, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, seizure disorder, epilepsy, Huntington disease, demyelinating diseases, multiple sclerosis, CNS infections such as meningitis and encephalitis, mental disorders, autism, and brain tumors. The purpose of this course is to educate the student on the brains anatomy and physiology, while defining diseases and conditions that effect normal functioning of the brain.
Joint Aging
2 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credits
Category: Assessment
As a massage therapist, understanding the human body is a must, but to really serve our clients we must also know how and why the body ages. This course focuses specifically on joint aging. We will identify different types of joints, define osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and explain preventative measures to protect joints. The purpose of the course is to educate you, the massage therapist, on why and how joints age.
Degenerative Disc Disease
1 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credit
Category: Clinical/Medical Settings
This course will review the fundamental anatomical structures of the and intervertebral discs for the purpose of identifying the pathophysiology behind degenerative disc disease. The purpose of this course is to help you, the massage therapist, understand the impact of degenerative disc disease on the person and to discuss treatment options available.
Errors Diagnosing Joint Disease
1 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credit
Category: Clinical/Medical Settings
This massage CEU course will discuss errors and types of decision making errors that lead to diagnostic errors in diagnosing joint diseases and injuries. The purpose of this course is to educate the student on the different types of errors that could be made in a medical setting, and additionally to describe and explain related joint diseases, injuries and conditions.
The Science of Headaches
1 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credit
Category: Science
The purpose of this course is to improve the students understanding of different types of headaches, why they occur, how they occur on a physiological level, and to understand the correlation between neck injuries and headaches. This course identifies different types of headaches, why they occur, and how they can be evaluated and characterized. Additional details will be discussed such as cluster headaches, pathogenesis of migraines, post traumatic headaches, cervicogenic headaches, and more.
Future Stem Cell Treatments
1 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credit
Category: Science
What are stem cells exactly? What is their purpose in the human body? How do they work? How can they help people fight or reverse their medical ailments? These questions and more will be answered with Future Stem Cell Treatments. We will discuss different focuses of medicine such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, spinal cord injury, severe burn wounds, etc., and identify relevant research on the ability of stem cells to help in these areas. The purpose and intent of this course is to have massage therapists walk away with a greater knowledge of stem cells and how they may one day help many people with a variety of different medical conditions. An excellent new area of medicine that everyone in the health care field should be aware of.
Drugs with Severe Side Effects
1 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credit
Category: Clinical/Medical Settings
The purpose of this course is to educate the student on the side effects of common prescription medications, what other drugs or foods may interact with them, and identify safety precautions to minimize risks of dangerous side effects. A great course for massage therapists who desire to learn more about the harmful side effects of some prescription medications.
Nutrition Research
.5 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credits
Category: Self Care
This massage CEU course will cover research conducted on different areas of nutrition such as diets (Paleolithic diets, ketogenic diets, caloric restriction, high fiber diets) and help to identify what the best type of diet for weight loss may be. The effects of diet on neurocognitive function will also be discussed, the role of Brain Derived Neurotropic Factor (BDNF), including the effects of certain diets on diabetics, and more!
Tumors of the CNS
.5 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credits
Category: Clinical/Medical Settings
This massage CEU course discusses tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) and their causes. Hereditary disorders, such as neurofibromatosis, von Hippel-Lindau disease, and others are discussed including and environmental impacts that can cause central nervous system tumors.
Sciatica Anatomy & Physiology
.5 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credits
Category: Acupressure
The goal of this massage CEU class is to provide massage therapists with a more in depth understanding of the anatomy of the spine so you can increase your expertise on conditions dealing with the spine. The last section will review useful acupressure points.
Depression Anatomy & Physiology
.5 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credits
Category: Science
This massage CEU course will review mood disorders, hormone imbalances, and genetic causes of what cause depression to occur in the brain. In addition, a thorough review of different regions of the brain such as the hypothalamus, amygdala, how depression effects each of these regions, and more.
Diversity & Cultural Competency
.5 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credits
Category: Other
Have you ever encountered clients of diverse cultural backgrounds, and felt unsure on how to best communicate with them? Are you curious about different ethnicities, cultures, and customs? In this massage CEU course, we discuss this and much more.
Transmittable Diseases
.5 Massage Therapy Continuing Education Credits
Category: HIV/AIDS
The goal of this massage CEU Course is to help you increase your knowledge on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Pneumocystis, Tuberculosis, Influenza, malaria, cholera, the Zika virus, hantavirus, and leprosy.
Diet & Cancer: The Connection
1.5 Massage Continuing Education Credits
Category: Advanced Science
In this course, the massage therapist can expect to learn more about the research behind weight management and weight loss. Key topics we review include aging & weight gain, causes of weight gain, stress, anxiety, diabetes, exercise, and weight loss maintenance.
Rheumatology & Diagnostic Errors
1 Massage Continuing Education Credits
Category: Science
Diagnostic Errors in Rheumatology reviews commonly made decision errors in this area of medicine. Additionally, we discuss several different medical conditions and how they present themselves in the human body. Conditions discussed include gout, Raynaud’s phenomenon, certain congenital abnormalities, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, psoriatic arthritis and more.
The Impact of Diet on Behavior
1 Massage Continuing Education Credits
Category: Advanced Science
This online continuing education course will help the massage therapist understand current nutrition strategies to manage mood and behavior, along with a review of how and why foods impact behavior.
Weight Loss Medications & Surgeries – Current Treatments
1 Massage Continuing Education Credits
Category: Science
This course reviews key information on weight loss medications and surgeries available on the market place today. The provider can expect to learn about different weight loss procedures such as gastric bypass, gastric banding, bariatric surgery, and more. Additionally, we review medications commonly used to help patients lose weight, to improve our understanding on the benefits and drawbacks of these drugs.
Skin & The Aging Process
1 Massage Continuing Education Credit
Category: Science
In this online course we discuss how and why the skin ages, along with the causes of skin aging. The purpose of this course is to educate the provider on the structures that make up the skin, while reviewing preventative methods used to naturally minimize the aging process.
Pregnancy & Gestational Diabetes
1 Massage Continuing Education Credits
Category: Science
Learn about the causes of gestational diabetes, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis procedures, effects on a newborn baby, appropriate weight gain during pregnancy, medications, and gestational diabetes prevention. An important subject to be aware of for all healthcare providers.