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What does a Massage Therapist do?
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What do Sports Injury Therapists do?
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How long will it take to complete the Massage Therapy and Sports
Injury Therapy Program?
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What is an outreach program? What is
a field placement? What is the clinic for?
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Upon successful completion of Massage Therapy and Sports Injury
Therapy Programs, will I be eligible to write any provincial
certification exams?
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What does a Massage Therapist do? |
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As a Registered Massage Therapist,
obtaining your education from Canadian Therapeutic College
means a vast range of employment opportunities are available
to you. Therapists may own and manage private clinics, or
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chiropractic clinics, |
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medical and health centers, |
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private physician offices, |
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nursing homes, |
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professional and amateur sports
teams, |
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fitness institutes, |
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aesthetic spas |
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private industry teaching environments. |
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What do Sports Injury Therapists do? |
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A Sports Injury Therapist may select
employment from a variety of settings:
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national / provincial sports teams |
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rehabilitation centres |
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physical therapy clinics |
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chiropractic clinics |
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fitness institutes |
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medical and health centres |
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physicians' offices |
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How long will it take to complete the
Massage Therapy and Sports Injury Therapy Programs?
The Massage Therapy program is a 2-year
program and the Sports Injury Therapy program is a 3-year
program running a "3 day week" with three, 3-hour classes,
scheduled per day. The Advanced Standing Massage Therapy
program (1-year) and the Advanced Standing Sports Injury
Therapy program (2-year) run Monday to Friday with two,
3-hour classes, per day. Clinics, Outreaches and Field
Placements are scheduled outside of class time. There are
scheduled breaks for holidays, between semesters and for the
summer.
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What is
an outreach program? What is a field placement?
What is the clinic for?
Clinics are where the general public
receive therapy treatments (e.g. Massage Therapy and Sports
Injury Therapy), performed by students studying at CTC and
CCDH. Field Placements are opportunities where students gain
relevant experience in a work environment. Outreaches are a
set of community based programs where students are exposed
to and practice Massage Therapy at locations outside the
College (i.e. Sporting Events, Hospitals).
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Upon
successful completion of Massage
Therapy and Sports Injury Therapy Programs, will I be
eligible to write any provincial certification exams?
After successful completion
of the Massage Therapy program or the Sports Injury Therapy
program at Canadian Therapeutic College, graduates are
eligible to write the provincial certification examination,
to become a Registered Massage Therapist in the province of
Ontario. |
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