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Beware of short intensive MASSAGE courses |
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There are a number of short intensive courses now available but can proper training really be that quick? Massage therapists have to use a set of clinical skills which take time to develop through good training and practice. You need to learn the basics of a technique first, go away and practice them, then come back to learn more and develop them further. And then have some more practice and guidance to consolidate the skill before the end of the training course (that’s how we do it). On a short intensive course, at best you may be shown how to do a basic technique once; you practice it once and then move straight on to the next subject. And this goes on intensively for days so when you look back, how much will you actually remember? This is no way to develop any meaningful level of clinical skill. It is quite staggering how many techniques and subjects some organisations claim to teach in just a few days. Here is an example of the content of one 7 day intensive course we found:
Yes, and all this in just 7 days! Even if the trainers could ‘cover’ all these topics in the time no student could keep absorbing so much intensive new information continually for 7 days? These short massage courses may be very quick and cheap but as always you only get what you pay for. |
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