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Massage Therapy

Centennial College
Toronto, OntarioCanada
On campus
Full-time
€11,500.46/year
 1041 Points
Duration
3 Years
Language
English
Apply date
Aug 2024

Program Description

The Massage Therapy program at Centennial College will provide you with both the fundamental and advanced massage therapy skills to become a successful massage therapist. This advanced diploma health program will emphasize professionalism and teach an evidence-based approach to assessment, treatment planning and implementation.

Recognized as a distinctive and rigorous offering within the School of Community and Health Studies, this college health program will balance a combination of theory and practical application through in-class lectures, lab experience, an onsite public clinic and off-site outreach placements.

You'll learn the proper assessment tools and techniques to deal with a wide variety of conditions that involve lymph, muscle, nerve, fascia and joints of the body, as well as a wellness focus that maintains physical health, function and mobility.

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Program Highlights

  • Programs at Centennial College are awarded Key Performance Indicator Awards based on student satisfaction survey statistics. The Massage Therapy program has received the President’s Academic Gold Award for Graduate Satisfaction and the President’s Academic Gold Award for Quality of Learning Experience.
  • The Massage Therapy program offers strong clinical components through on-site labs, clinics, and off-site placements. At Centennial College’s Morningside Campus, you obtain hands-on practice within modern clinical spaces where you meet clients who experience injuries, dysfunction and disease. Your responsibility is to offer assessment and treatment under the supervision of experienced RMT faculty members to help improve patients’ physical ability and quality of life.
  • Graduates are eligible to write the registration examinations administered by the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario (CMTO) to obtain the Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) designation.
  • Centennial College students have demonstrated an excellent success rate at the CMTO entry-to-practice examinations.
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Curriculum

Year 1

Semester 1

College Communications 2

General Education Elective

Massage Theory and Practice 1

Legislation, Standards and Professionalism

Introductory Concepts of Anatomy and Physiology

Nutrition and Lifestyle Practices

Semester 2

College Communications 3

Introduction to Hydrotherapy

Massage Theory and Practice 2

Therapeutic Relationship 1

Clinical Anatomy 1

Physiology

Year 2

Semester 3

Pathophysiology 1

Massage Theory and Practice 3

Clinic 1

Clinical Anatomy 2

Biomechanics & Orthopedic Assessment

Semester 4

Global Citizenship: From Social Analysis to Social Action

Outreach 1

Pathophysiology 2

Massage Theory and Practice 4

Clinic 2

Fitness & Remedial Exercise

Therapeutic Relationship 2

Year 3

Semester 5

General Education Elective

Outreach 2

Pathophysiology 3

Massage Theory and Practice 5

Neuroanatomy and Physiology

Issues and Research Literacy In Massage Therapy

Clinic 3

Semester 6

Massage Theory and Practice 6

Professional Practice

Creating an Independent Practice

Clinic 4

Outreach 3

Advanced Techniques

Careers

  • Registered Massage Therapist
  • Primary Healthcare Provider
  • Self Employed Practitioner

Areas of Employment:

  • Health and Wellness facilities
  • Self-employment practice
  • Interprofessional health care facilities
  • Hospitals
  • Sports rehabilitation clinics
  • Health spas
  • Hotels
  • Hospice and Palliative care centre
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