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Massage Therapy Fact Sheet

Press Releases

Massage Makes Strides in Public Acceptance — Consumer Research Overview

Explosive Growth Rate for Massage Training Begins to Flatten

ABMP Practitioner Characteristics and Professional Membership Patterns

Influence of National Retailing Trends on Massage

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Massage Profession Metrics

Consumer research shows Americans who have tried massage have overwhelmingly positive feelings about their experience. Since the 1980s, the profession has seen dramatic growth in the acceptance and use of massage, increasingly across age, gender, economic and ethnic boundaries. Massage therapy is the leading service requested in spas and one of most-used forms of alternative/complementary medicine in the United States ABMP estimates there are as many as 250 modalities in massage, bodywork and somatic therapies. (read more)

Glossary of More Than 250 Entries on Massage Treatments
Searchable Archive of More Than 800 Articles, from Acupressure to Zen