Associate Membership for Massage Therapy Education

Are you interested in ABMP’s quality Continuing Education and a portfolio of additional outstanding resources, but you don’t need or want liability insurance?

ABMP Associate membership is for you.

At only $199 for 600 hours of continuing education, ABMP Associate membership is tailored to your needs!

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600+ Continuing Education Courses

As an ABMP Associate member, your Continuing Education is free. Choose from more than 600 hours of on-demand massage and bodywork continuing education and earn free CE by completing a short quiz. Then print out a certificate of completion. Thanks to ABMP acquiring the World Massage Conference vault, ABMP Associate members now have access to hundreds of on-demand courses, with topics such as self-care, ethics, various techniques, and more!

Check out our full catalog of continuing education massage therapy courses to find the online course that is right for you. Whether you want to polish your technique, delve into ethics, refocus your self-care plan, or hone your marketing initiatives, ABMP’s courses can help educate and inspire you—and all are available when it’s convenient for you. 

Quick-Reference Apps for Anatomy and Pathology

Access to our quick-reference apps—ABMP Five-Minute Muscles and ABMP Pocket Pathology. These dynamic resources give you information about muscle origin/insertion/actions, key information for nearly 200 common pathologies, plus how-to palpation and technique videos—at your fingertips on a phone, tablet, or computer. More details at abmp.com/abmp-apps.

Award-Winning Magazines

ABMP Associate membership also includes access to the award-winning digital edition of Massage & Bodywork magazine. Six times a year, you can earn CEs by reading and learning from Massage & Bodywork’s premiere contributors. Check out the digital archives at www.massageandbodyworkdigital.com.

Marketing Tools and Discount Partners

A customizable website builder—designed with bodyworkers in mind—is also part of ABMP Associate membership, as well as a wealth of online marketing materials to help fuel your practice. An array of companies also offer discounts to ABMP members. (Some of these may not be applicable to international practitioners.)

 

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Do you have questions about ABMP Associate membership? Call our team at 800-458-2267, or email expectmore@abmp.com, and we'll be happy to answer them!

News

Increasing Education Hours: A Trend on the Rise

Due to a revised federal rule change, states with minimum-hour education requirements lower than 600 are considering increasing their massage therapy program length. Find out which states have already introduced bills that would raise education hours, which massage boards have proposed and made final rule changes, and why this is becoming a national trend.

Blog

ABMP CE Summit: Headaches

 Headaches.

Join us online Tuesday, April 30, 2024, for the ABMP CE Summit: Headaches, which take learners on a journey from understanding headaches to working with clients with headache pain using multiple modalities and techniques.

New CE Course: Stretching the Hip

Dr. Joe Muscolino displays a massage therapy technique.

The new ABMP CE course, “Stretching the Hip,” is available in the ABMP Education Center to view and earn 1.5 CE hours.

Benefits

Podcast: Cancer, Clots, and COVID—A Complicated Client

A client was recently treated for colon cancer—and it didn’t go well. She had surgical complications, a bout of sepsis, and more. Is massage therapy safe? We discuss on this episode of “I Have a Client Who . . .” Pathology Conversations with Ruth Werner.

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