- Massage Therapy Institute of Colorado
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Massage Therapy Institute of Colorado is an accredited[1] institute of higher education that offers both primary and advanced levels of therapeutic massage training[2]. The institute currently ranks among an intermediary, yet diminishing, number of approved and accredited massage training centers in the greater Denver (Colorado) metropolitan region that are non-corporate owned.
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History
Massage Therapy Institute of Colorado was founded in the mid 1980’s by Dr. Mark Manton. It was during this period that Dr. Manton began training specialized massage techniques to Denver area health care professionals. Soon after the school’s preliminary institutional establishment, Massage Therapy Institute of Colorado also began offering practical and theoretical training in Chinese herbology, classical homeopathy, and nutritional care, in addition to numerous other holistic health care modalities. Encouraged by the growing embrace of eastern, traditional, natural, and alternative medicines, Dr. Manton and several of his close colleagues used the school’s institutional framework to form and establish several other local educational institutes of higher learning and vocational study ,such as Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy School of Colorado, and Consolidated Health Institutes of Colorado.
Location
Massage Therapy Institute of Colorado is located in Denver, Colorado, exactly 1.3 miles due east of the city’s Central Business District. The current campus facility is shared with the Colorado School of Traditional Medicine, Izba Spa, and Yan Jing Chinese Herbal Pharmacy. The campus also leases private office space to several resident Naturopathic Physicians, Licensed Acupuncturists, psychotherapists, mind-body practitioners, and massage professionals.
Products and services
Massage Therapy Institute of Colorado presently offers an 800-hour length Certified Massage Therapist program and a separate 300-hour length advanced training course in Connective Tissue Manipulation. The school plans to soon reinstate several previously-offered continuing education programs such as Cranial-sacral Therapy training, Tui-Na (Chinese Medical Massage), and Traditional Thailand Massage, as well the application of an all-new Medical Massage training program.
Numbers
In the 2007 reporting year, Massage Therapy Institute of Colorado had a completion rate of 84.7 percent and a pupil placement rate of 97.8 percent[3]. Both numbers exceeded the industry average.
Other sources
- http://comta.org/pdf/newsletters/COMTA_News_Summer_2005.pdf
- http://www.mtic.edu/pdf/catalog_07_2009.pdf
References
- ^ http://www.comta.org/directory.php
- ^ http://www.amtamassage.org/schools/schooldisp.aspx?&ID=372
- ^ 2007 Annual Accreditation Report
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