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Models from Abroad Strike Again!

The idea and the M.O. is for you to agree to perform a series of massages, “costing” them $500+, usually in the thousands. You will give them a bill prior to meeting them, and they agree to send you a certified or cashier’s check. You get the check, never performing the services, and they ask you to deposit it, because… due to the mistaken travel arrangements with the agent, you’ve been overpaid through the check that has been cut and it on its way to you.

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HIPAA On the Horizon

At this time, compliance is not mandatory for Bodyworkers in the industry of Alternative Healthcare (unless the information is used in an insurance claim situation), but many Information Technology systems are developing in order to accommodate the eventual governmental requirement.

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National Certification Board Unveils Employer “Center of Excellence” Program

There are pros and cons to this method, but I think the aim for the NCB is to encourage certification processes continue at a rate where jurisdictions rely on the NCE as a benchmark for competency while rewarding the employers and businesses that utilize these same certificants with advertising from an established authority.

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Yoga Today brings health improvement home

I hope you find the idea of a professional instructor appearing in your home for a different yoga class every day, located in some exotic and epically panoramic places (like Sedona, AZ, & Jackson, WY), inspiring and worth your time to consider including in your health and wellness program.

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Distance Education: Pro or Con?

I think making time to “be” a professional is critical in delivering the service that our clients expect from a certificant. “Hands On” is the nature of our profession.

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Why me? (…I ask the massage gods)

Client Flow and Ebb
I think as a privately-practicing and employed massage therapist, it is safe to say that, at least in Las Vegas, there are times that I can speak for the population of other MTs in this valley of perpetual cornucopia and perpetual drought - depending on the season.  While I’ve experienced bounty as [...]

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Site reviews: Free, online NCE preparation questions

Practice tests for the National Certification Exam (NCE) online are difficult to find.  Up until a smart marketer at Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins (LWW) figured out that selling the available, free, and online 170-question practice test is more profitable, there was an easily accessible and excellent resource for promising, proactive, and no-so-test-savvy massage therapists and [...]

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