Types of massage therapists
There are a few “medical” massage therapists out there with some more substantive training in orthopedics and rehabilitation, a couple years worth, with certifications that mean something. In general, these are the “licensed” or “registered” massage therapists, although the standards vary widely. Two years of training isn’t exactly like going to medical school, and it doesn’t even come close to what physical therapists or chiropractors do, but it is well above average for massage. A massage therapist with this level of education is certainly the kind that patients should seek out if they want massage as a treatment for anything.
Many massage therapists have almost no training & are not qualified to treat any kind of medical problem.
Unfortunately, such massage therapists are rare. Manand Ry LMTs MTs have much less training than others, and massage therapists in most places in the world are barely trained and entirely uncertified. Most work in spas or resorts and on cruise ships, doing treatments that are notoriously fluffy and skin deep, with little therapeutic value other than the comfort of a quiet hour of touching (even though many patients find skin-deep massage to be more annoying than anything else). If they continue their educations at all, they do so by taking weekend workshops in branded methods of extremely low average quality. It’s actually inappropriate to call these practitioners “therapists” at all, and in some places (here) it’s actually illegal — they have to use terms like “bodyworker” or “masseuse.”
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