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Valerie Hood
  • Female
  • Hadley, MA
  • United States

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Which modalities do you practice?
Swedish Massage, Deep Tissue Massage, Sports Massage, Therapeutic Massage, Trigger Point Therapy, Medical Massage

Valerie Hood's Blog

The Corporate Takeover of Massage

Perhaps you have seen some of the many articles about the impact of for-profit schools on people and on taxpayers.  The New York Times just wrote another one recently.

Not that long ago, massage therapy was loosely regulated in most states.  Industry leaders, composed of massage school owners, the AMTA (American Massage Therapy Associates), COMTA (the school accrediting company) and NCBTMB (the testing company) joined forces to hire lobbyists to create regulations.  Essentially they…

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Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:09pm — 15 Comments

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At 12:24am on February 16, 2011, Ariana Vincent, LMT, MTI, BCTMB said…
Welcome to Massage and Bodywork Professionals. Warmly, Ariana Vincent
At 6:13pm on February 14, 2011, Stephen Jeffrey said…
just read your blog, great work Valerie :)
At 10:04pm on February 13, 2011, Darcy Neibaur said…
Welcome Valerie
 
 
 

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