American Massage Therapy Association (www.amtamassage.org)

According to their web page, the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) represents more the 53,000 massage therapists in 27 countries. AMTA works to establish massage therapy as integral to the maintenance of good health and complementary to other therapeutic processes; to advance the profession through ethics and standards, certification, school accreditation, continuing education, professional publications, legislative efforts, public education and fostering the development of members.

Resources provided by the AMTA that may be of interest to massage therapy students include:

Becoming a Professional Massage Therapist (becoming_therapist.pdf)

Credentials for the Massage Therapy Profession (www.amtamassage.org/findamassage/credential.html)