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Register as a CE Provider: Feature your courses in CE Registry.

The FSMTB CE Registry is a database that contains continuing education courses for massage therapists that are provided by educators who meet and adhere to the FSMTB Continuing Education Standards.

REACH is an online platform providing massage therapists with continuing education courses and information supporting professional competence. REACH courses facilitate ongoing learning aligned with state requirements, remediation, and professional development.

The MBLEx Candidate handbook is the most important source of information for those applying for the examination. In the handbook you will find information on eligibility requirements, application procedures, fees, scheduling, exam content, and results.

In developing the Massage & Bodywork Licensing Examination (MBLEx), every effort is made to respect and include the various forms of massage and bodywork practiced in the United States. There is continuous involvement from the regulatory community, as well as testing and psychometric professionals, at every step of the exam development process.

The EVC allows approved massage therapy schools and programs the ability to efficiently verify education for their students or graduates that have applied to take the MBLEx.

Applicants seeking access to the MBLEx will be required to substantiate either:-Enrollment in and having received education and training in all subject areas of the MBLEx Content Outline from an approved massage therapy education program.-Graduation from an approved massage therapy education program

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The MBLEx Candidate Handbook supersedes information addressed in this FAQs section. All applicable rules and circumstances cannot be addressed in this section, so additional FSMTB policies, procedures, and instructions may also apply and may be modified, amended, or canceled by FSMTB at any time, with or without notice.

This video outlines the types of identification required to take the MBLEx.

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The Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards partnered with The Network, a counter-human trafficking organization, to co-author an article examining massage licensing fraud in education. State massage licensing regulations seek to provide assurance of common standards of safety, expertise, and professionalism among licensed therapists (LMTs). However, because of the value of LMT licenses, illicit massage […]

This toolkit, co-authored by FSMTB Executive Director Dr. Debra Persinger and Lorna Candler of the Colorado Department of Higher Education, is a practical guide for state authorizers to identify and take action on human trafficking in higher education institutions. The toolkit focuses on sex trafficking that is increasingly perpetrated in higher education by organized, sophisticated […]

The FSMTB Human Trafficking Task Force released the Human Trafficking Task Force Report in November 2017. This report is the culmination of nearly two years of study, listening, discussion and consensus building. It includes an evaluation of the prevalence and impact of human trafficking on the massage profession, areas within the jurisdiction of FSMTB to […]