Certification
National Certification sets standards for massage and bodywork practitioners. National certification protects the consumer, the profession and employers by ensuring that individuals who obtain this credential have skills consistent with specific national standards and criteria. To become eligible for certification a massage therapist must possess certain levels of education, experience and training, demonstrate mastery of core skills, abilities and knowledge, and pass a certification exam.
Initiated by the American Massage Therapy Association in 1992, the National Certification Exam has become the standard for licensure used by most of the 33 states that regulate massage, to measure a competent and qualified practitioner. More than 70,000 massage therapists now have National Certification.
Each year there are approximately 70,000 new Licensed Massage Therapists taking the NCBTMB National Cerification Exam. A growing field due to an aging population, the NCBTMB exam is rigorous to most massage students. As a result of this rigorous exam, several test preparation services have been created.
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