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Archive for April 19th, 2011

We Need More Articles Like This One

19 April 2011

This article titled Massage Therapists are not Masseuse’s is exactly right, even if it is in Canada, the US faces the same issue. The general public is vastly out of the loop when it comes to the use of these terms regarding Massage. So it causes great confusion to the people who need a professional massage therapists help. The media uses the terms Masseuse and Massage Therapist interchangeably and there is a huge need for distinction, even in some legislative bills in some states.

A trained/certified and licenses Massage Therapist is a person that can help you with your everyday stresses, aches and pains in regards to muscles.  A Masseuse or Masseur is deemed the untrained, working out of the scope of practice of a regular Massage Therapist that performs extra services involving sexual misconducts.

100% of the time when I personally educate people about this distinction, they have no idea of the difference.  They just figure the name has no meaning and the individual either does or does not include “Extra” services.

Lets educate and inform, so we can all move out of archaic thinking….