Rewarding career for Registered Massage Therapist
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Upgrade Your Massage Therapy Career with Osteopathy Training
If you’re a massage therapist looking to expand your skills and advance your career, osteopathy training offers a compelling upgrade. While both professions are hands-on, osteopathy provides a deeper, more comprehensive approach to healthcare, with greater financial rewards and professional longevity.
Many massage therapists pursue osteopathy after realizing the limitations of massage in treating complex or chronic pain. Osteopathy offers the ability to assess and treat these deeper issues, allowing you to resolve cases that go beyond what massage alone can address.
Osteopathy is also gentler on your body. Unlike massage therapy, which is physically demanding and can lead to burnout, osteopathy uses efficient techniques focused on leverage and positioning. This allows osteopaths to work longer into their careers, with many practitioners working well into their 70s and 80s.
From a financial perspective, osteopathy offers a higher earning potential. While tuition costs for both programs are similar, osteopathic manual practitioners (OMPs) enjoy greater income due to their advanced diagnostic skills, clinical autonomy, and more complex treatment techniques.
Osteopathy provides a sustainable, intellectually challenging, and financially rewarding career path. For massage therapists seeking professional growth, greater clinical responsibility, and a longer, healthier career, osteopathy at the CAO is the ideal next step.
Rewarding career for Registered Massage Therapist
Your Registered Massage Therapist background is perfect for pursuing osteopathy! With your previous education you get DIRECT ENTRY into our program, and bypass our PREP course.
Our program will take your skills and knowledge and level them up so you can assess and treat osteopathically, with confidence, precision and expertise! CAO Graduates are well known for being highly trained! This is why they get full insurance billing privileges through OSTCAN and often have full practices within 6 months!
The CAO trains in Principles-based osteopathy which is high level (not entry level) osteopathy. You will be able to help patients in ways other modalities can’t. Our grads make their own schedules and earn well because of their high level of skill.
The CAO’s Admissions process is very personal! Unlike universities or colleges you won’t have to speak to a series of people and departments to get the information you need. Instead, we have personal consultations with every applicant, and guide them through the process every step of the way!
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Learn about:
- Our programs & schedules
- Insurance billing
- Financial aid & payment plans
- Lab training and Collective Mechanics™
- Clinical training & our Charity Clinics
- Campuses in Hamilton or Calgary
- 3-year fast track or 4-year regular program
Why study at CAO?
- 22 years teaching osteopathy
- Financial Aid / Payment Plans available
- 4200 program curated by PhD’s in curriculum development
- 1500 hours of hands-on training is supervised and in-person
- Only school teaching the Collective Mechanics™ approach to treatment
- Fully insured classrooms and teaching clinics
- Extensive faculty of working osteopaths, PhD’s and MD’s
- Charity Community Clinic serving the public and training senior students
- Connected with leading Osteopathic Medical Schools in the USA
- Study in Hamilton or Calgary - Exchange between campuses
- Full insurance billing for Graduates - with membership in OSTCAN
- 3 year and 4 year program options
- Direct entry for KIN, RMT, Health Science and Health Care
- PREP pathway for Non-health applicants and adult learners