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American Massage Therapy Association |
Address: 820 Davis Street, Suite 100, Evanston, IL 60201-4444
Phone: (800) 696-2682 (In CA Only) (510) 939-2682 (All Others)
Fax: (510) 210-0230
Home Page: http://www.amtamassage.org
E-mail:http://www.amtamassage.org/contact.htm |
Description: The mission of
the American Massage Therapy Association is to develop and advance
the art, science and practice of massage therapy in a caring,
professional and
ethical manner in order to promote the health and welfare of
humanity. |
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American Massage Therapy Association
- California Chapter |
Address: 2438 Shannon Lane, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Phone: (847) 864-0123 Fax: (847) 864-1178
Home Page: http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eamtaca/
E-mail:amtaca@earthlink.net |
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Description: Our "Active
Professional" members (81% of our national membership) have
qualified for membership either through testing or by achieving
a minimum standard (500 hours) of training. The AMTA-CA Chapter
is here to serve our members, potential members, individuals
interested in pursuing massage as a career, and members of the
public interested in experiencing massage. |
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Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals |
Address: 28677 Buffalo Park Road - Evergreen, CO 80439-7347
Phone: (800) 458-ABMP (2267)
Home Page: http://www.abmp.com/
E-mail:expectmore@abmp.com |
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Description: Associated
Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP) is a professional
membership association founded to provide practitioners with
services and information to help them succeed in their practice.
ABMP is devoted to promoting ethical practices, protecting the
rights of
practitioners, and educating the public as to the benefits of
massage, bodywork and somatic therapies.
ABMP was created in response
to the needs of practitioners for an effective, efficient, non-bureaucratic
networking and services organization. Practitioners need assistance
in locating equipment, products, and services and in acquiring
the knowledge to market and
operate their businesses successfully. ABMP endeavors to assist
practitioners in various aspects of their careers by providing
the most comprehensive liability insurance and member benefits
package in the profession. As ABMP celebrates its tenth year
anniversary, ABMP's active membership has grown to more than
20,000 in the U.S. plus a modest number of members residing in
other countries.
We are on a mission to expose
millions more Americans to both the pleasures and health benefits
of a skillful massage and related therapies. We are proud to
have you - whether practitioner, educator, supplier, or magazine
reader - alongside us on this exciting journey. |
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International Massage Association |
Address: 3000 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 308, Washington,
D.C. 20008
Phone: (202) 387-6555 Fax (202) 332-0531
Home Page: http://www.imagroup.com
E-mail:massage@his.com |
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Description: The International
Massage Association, located in the Nation's Capitol is a grassroots
massage association founded on April 1, 1994. We have a rapidly
growing membership of over 12,000 members. We are adding over
1,000 members per month, and we look forward to your participation. |
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The International Thai Therapists Association |
Address: 47 W. Polk St.#100-329, Chicago, IL 60605
Phone: (800) 354 6303
Home Page: http://www.imagroup.com
E-mail:itta@megsinet.net |
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Description: ITTA in association
with other major national associations works actively with state
and municipal regulatory and legislative committees to ensure
that if massage, bodywork, and somatic therapies regulations
are passed, they are fair to all qualified practitioners. |
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National Certification Board for Therapeutic
Massage and Bodywork |
Address: 8201 Greensboro Drive, Suite 300, McLean, VA 22102
Phone: (800) 296-0664 · (703) 610-9015 Fax: (703) 610-9005
Home Page: http://www.ncbtmb.com/
E-mail:mswiscoski@ncbtmb.com |
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Description: The mission of
the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and
Bodywork is to foster high standards of ethical and professional
practice in the delivery of services through a recognized credible
credentialing program that assures the competency of practitioners
of therapeutic massage and bodywork. |
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Oregon Massage Technicians' Association |
Address: PO Box 8, Paisley, OR 97636
Phone: (503) 295-5806
Home Page: http://www.teleport.com/~mattlmt/host/omta/omta.shtml |
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Description: We are here
to provide an alternative grass-roots professional organization.
We are a diverse, eclectic membership, dedicated to a collaborative,concensus
process. We support creative new ideas and flexibility. We havea
local Oregon identity, are self-authorized, and
self-created.
We have faith that the OMTA process
does work: we continuallytry to go beyond polarities to trust
in the underlying unity. We dialoguein diversity, value compassion
and respect, and accept our humanness, ourvulnerability and our
judgements. We are committed to working through ourgroup process,
appreciate feedback, and are aware of boundaries. |
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Touch Research International |
Address: Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami School
of Medicine
P.O. Box 016820 (Dept. - 820), 1601 NW 12th Avenue, Miami, FL
33101
Phone: (305) 243.6781 Fax: (305) 243.6488
Home Page: http://www.miami.edu/touch-research/ |
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Description: The first
Touch Research Institute was formally established in 1992 by
Director Tiffany Field, Ph.D. at the University of Miami School
of Medicine. Established via a start-up grant from Johnson &
Johnson, TRI was the first center in the world devoted solely
to the study of
touch and its application in science and medicine.
TRI's distinguished team of researchers,
representing Duke, Harvard, Maryland, and other universities,
strives to better define touch as it promotes health and contributes
to the treatment of disease. Research efforts that began in 1982
and continue today have shown that touch
therapy has numerous beneficial effects on human well-being.
The second TRI, located at Nova
Southeastern University, was established in 1997 to launch a
number of wellness programs for healthy parents and infants.
A third TRI is currently being established in the Philippines
by a group of neonatologists who have replicated previous studies
showing that preterm infants' weight gain can be facilitated
by massage therapy.
Specifically, we have shown that
massage therapy can increase weight gain in premature infants
and alter EEG in the direction of heightened alertness. It also
alleviates depressive symptoms, reduces stress hormones, alleviates
pain and positively alters the immune system in children
and adults with various medical conditions.
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