About how much does massage therapy school cost? Have you done it...are you successful?
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The prerequisites I tell all prospective massage students is the following:
First, "You gotta have the want to". Meaning that you have to have the inner drive to want to help people. If you are going into it just to make money, look into other types of training, because you will burnout right away, because being an MT isn't your average 9-5 job.
Secondly, prepare to be a "professional student", because you will need to know almost as much as doctor does about the human body. When a client of yours asks to work on a certain muscle or asks you why a certain muscle hurts, if you don't know what you are talking about, you will at the least sound uninformed and at the worst, you will lose that client and will probably never get any others, because "people talk". Think about it, when you want to get recommendations, who do you talk to?
So, you can't fake it when you are working on or with the human body. Besides, there is too much mediocrity out there all ready.
Besides Anatomy & Physiology, you will also have to master massage theory, techniques, history, contraindications, physical assessment, as well as Business Law, Record Keeping, Ethics and Traditional Oriental Medicine concepts.
Then be tested upon all of the above not only by the school you are attending, but also by a State and in some states a National massage board.
If you are ready, willing and able to complete all of the above, then have at it !!
P.S. My cost in 2000 was $7000.
It wasn't cheap, I paid cash for it, but they didn't do all of the things they promised they would. I had no help in finding a job, and I ended up leaving massage to work in another industry.
Now I have my own business in massage and personal training. I'm trying to succeed, barely getting by and wish I had done something safe, a normal job.
For an accredited school (which I recommend), you'll probably pay $6-10K and spend at least six months...full-time, much more part-time. I haven't gone that route...I have exchange partners who are professional MT's who've helped me to learn. I don't have the time...and don't think I want to go into the business, so I haven't invested the money.
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