A  Career with a Future

Massage has stood the test of time and will be around for as long as people have stress or pain. More and more, both alternative and mainstream healthcare providers are using Massage Therapy. Our graduates currently work in private practice, fitness centers, chiropractic offices, corporate offices, salons, and airports. Others work with medical doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and hospitals. To a great degree, where you practice is limited only by your imagination.

Massage Therapy offers you the opportunity to work for yourself and to become part of a rapidly growing healthcare field. With massage you truly have the possibility of “Touching People, Changing Lives.”

A Career with a Past

Massage Therapy is perhaps the oldest continuously practiced healthcare art. Every culture through recorded history has had some form of hands on healing practice.

India, China, Egypt, and Greece are among the cultures which have contributed to the development of various aspects of massage. Modern massage began in Europe in the early 1800's and migrated to the United States by the mid to late 1800's. One of the areas it was first practiced as a part of mainstream medicine was in Kentucky in the early 1900's. Though having faded from popularity through negative associations, Massage Therapy was “re-discovered” in the 1970's and is now one of the fastest growing career options in the United States.

At the Louisville School of Massage we honor our heritage as part of this long and respected tradition and promote the highest and best from those who went before.