Prevention of Medical Errors for Massage

Prevention of Medical Errors: A Continuing Education Course for Massage Therapists

In massage therapy, every practitioner’s ultimate goal is to promote healing and relaxation while ensuring client safety. However, even the most experienced therapists can make mistakes. These errors, though often unintentional, can have lasting impacts on both clients and professionals. This course on preventing medical errors offers a unique opportunity for you, a potential massage therapist student, to deepen your skills and confidence in providing safe, effective care.

Medical errors occur when a therapist’s actions or lack thereof lead to unintended harm to a client. These mistakes can range from minor oversights, such as miscommunication, to severe errors, like ignoring or not properly understanding contraindications. This course will address preventing medical errors by covering common contraindications, broken down by bodily system, to heighten your awareness for conditions to beware of in your practice. 

Mistakes in massage therapy can harm clients physically and emotionally, eroding trust. For therapists, errors can damage reputations, result in legal consequences, and affect licensure. By being knowledgeable of the disorders that you are most likely to encounter in your practice, you are far less likely to cause any harm to your clients.

About This Course

• Massage Therapy continuing education CEs earned: 2
• Classification of CEs: Cognitive
• Tuition: $22 for online course and test. Please note that we do have package options that include this course. It is available at a discount through one of our two Florida renewal packages. We have a 7 CE renewal package with the 7 mandated hours, and you can also "Customize Your Own Package". Please note that packages are not retroactive if you have already enrolled in any of the courses they contain.
• Approved by: Institute of Somatic Therapy (Judith Koch) is approved by the NCBTMB (Provider #280672-00) as a continuing education Approved Provider. Institute of Somatic Therapy is approved by Florida (#MCE-326), and New York (#0019). Attention New York licensees: This particular course is not valid for New York. Our courses are also valid for AMTA, ABMP, and most individual states. Some states limit how many hours can be done online or by home study. Please refer to our State Guidelines section for specific information about your state. Laws can and do change, and your state will hold you responsible for knowing the laws that apply to you. 
• CE Broker Reporting:  Institute of Somatic Therapy will automatically report your hours to CE Broker in applicable states ONLY IF you have provided your license number in your online account with us. You can verify your license information by logging on to our website, and reviewing your account information. If your license is not shown there, please select “edit” to include it. We generally report to CE Broker 2-3 times per week. Once the course shows in your online account with them, you will have an opportunity to rate it. If you were happy with the course, would you be so kind as to take a few minutes to share that with others? If you were not happy, please share specific ways in which you feel that we can try to improve. Thank you.  

Testing: You complete your test online, and immediately upon passing, print your own certificate. To see how our online courses and testing work, we invite you to take our free sample course.

Course Description: This continuing education course for massage therapists reviews common contraindications of every system of the body that apply to massage therapy. The course teaches you how to recognize them, and if possible, work around them.

We also offer a companion course on Communicable Diseases and HIV, which will help you understand proper sanitation and the prevention of the spread of disease.



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