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Massage Mastery digital textbooks come alive with video, striking imagery, learning games, text translation, listen-along audio, critical-thinking scenarios, instant feedback, and more. Get ready for a better learning experience!
Digital Textbook Catalog
Preventing Disease Transmission in a Massage Practice
When it comes to disease prevention, we must have a strong knowledge base, exceptional professional hygiene, and effective protocols and policies. Written in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this text is available for free until January 2022.
Massage Mastery: From Student to Professional
This comprehensive introductory massage text first published in print by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins offers twenty-four clear, easy-to-follow chapters that explore all the key areas that are typically addressed in most massage training programs.
Spa Bodywork: A Guide for Massage Therapists
This second edition spa body treatment text originally published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins guides massage therapists through each step of delivering a spa treatment. Offer your clients new ways to experience wellness, without a wet room or expensive equipment.
Boundaries: The Foundation of Ethical Massage Practice
All of us as massage therapists, experience times when clients challenge our boundaries and the therapeutic relationship feels unsettling and confusing. We’ll meet boundary issues head-on through this compelling text full of video and immersive learning features.
Ethics in the Massage Profession
This dynamic text, full of video and exciting learning features brings the fascinating subject of ethics to life. We’ll compare and contrast our personal ethics with massage ethics and examine ethical principles through the lens of real-world client-therapists scenarios. Address ethical dilemmas with confidence!
English as a Second Language?
You can translate the text! Toggle between your language and English to improve your concept knowledge and word recognition. This short video will show you how.
Client-Therapist Scenarios
Scenarios are a form of story-telling where we place the concepts we’re learning into the dynamic environment of a session room and see therapists behave professionally and unprofessionally and the resulting consequences.
State Licensing Requirements and Websites
This table provides an overview to licensing requirements and a link to state massage website (updated March 2021). Many states list licensing exams that are no longer available, and so the MBLEx is stated unless it is not accepted by the state.
Alabama
Alaska
Arkansas
Licensed Massage Therapist
500 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Recent TB Test
Fingerprints
Background Check
Arkansas Law Exam
California
No State Requirement
Voluntary Certification
Certified Massage Therapist
500 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Colorado
Licensed Massage Therapist
500 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Fingerprints
Background Check
Liability Insurance
Connecticut
Delaware
Licensed Massage Therapist
500 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Fingerprints
Background Check
Current CPR
Certified Massage Technician
300 Hours of Education
Fingerprints
Background Check
Current CPR
Florida
Georgia
Licensed Massage Therapist
500 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Fingerprints
Background Check
Liability Insurance
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Certified Massage Therapist
625 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Fingerprints
Background Check
Liability Insurance
Iowa
Kansas
No state regulation.
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Licensed Massage Therapist
500 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Background Check
Current CPR
Current First Aid
Maryland
Licensed Massage Therapist
600 Hours of Education
60 College Credits
Pass the MBLEx
Current CPR
Fingerprints
Background Check
Jurisprudence Exam
Registered Massage Practitioner
600 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Current CPR
Fingerprints
Background Check
Jurisprudence Exam
Massachusetts
Michigan
Licensed Massage Therapist
625 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Background Check
Human Trafficking Training (Beginning March 14, 2022)
Minnesota
No state regulation.
Mississippi
Licensed Massage Therapist
700 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx or the Asian Bodywork Therapy Examination (ABTE)
Background Check
Current CPR
Current First Aid
Missouri
Licensed Massage Therapist
500 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx or the Asian Bodywork Therapy Examination (ABTE)
Fingerprints
Background Check
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
Licensed Massage Therapist
550 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx or Structural Integration Exam
Background Check
New Hampshire
Licensed Massage Practitioner
750 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Current First Aid
Current CPR
New Jersey
Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist
500 Hours of Education
100 Hours Supervised Clinical Practice
Pass the MBLEx
Liability Insurance
New Mexico
Licensed Massage Therapist
650 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Current First Aid
Current CPR
Jurisprudence Exam
New York
Licensed Massage Therapist
1000 Hours of Education
Pass New York State Massage Therapy Exam
Current First Aid
Current CPR
North Carolina
Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist
500 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Fingerprints
Background Check
Jurisprudence Training
North Dakota
Licensed Massage Therapist
750 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Jurisprudence Exam
Background Check
Ohio
Oklahoma
Licensed Massage Therapist
500 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Background Check
Liability Insurance
Oregon
Licensed Massage Therapist
625 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Jurisprudence Exam
Fingerprints
Background Check
Current CPR
Pennsylvania
Licensed Massage Therapist
600 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Child Abuse Reporting Course
Background Check
Current CPR
Rhode Island
Licensed Massage Therapist
500 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Current First Aid
Current CPR
Fingerprints
Background Check
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Licensed Massage Therapist
600 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Fingerprints
Background Check
Massage Apprentice
1,000 Hours of Supervised Training with a licensed massage therapist in good standing
Pass the MBLEx
Fingerprints
Background Check
Vermont
No state regulation.
Virginia
Washington
Licensed Massage Practitioner
500 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Current First Aid
Current CPR
Background Check
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Licensed Massage Therapist
600 Hours of Education
Pass the MBLEx
Current CPR
Current AED
Liability Insurance
Wyoming
No state requirements
NCBTMB
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