Massage as a profession for the blind.

Date:
[Between 1936 and 1939?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Massage as a profession for the blind. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In addition, a limited number of massage scholar- ships of {40 per annum, granted by Gardner’s Trust for the Blind are available for students from England and Wales who are recommended by the National Institute for the Blind, upon satisfactory completion of their month’s probationary period. The Course of Instruction. Massage students are accepted by the School only on condition that they are prepared to take the full course of two years, and sit for the three examinations (Massage, Remedial Exercises, and Electro-Therapy) of the Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics. Admission to the School is twice yearly— in January and July. The School sets itself definitely against any application from persons anxious to take only part of the course, for it will train only blind students whose qualifications at the close of their training will be unimpeachable and will bear: the strictest comparison with those of the most highly qualified seeing masseur. A departure from this principle would be fatal to the interests of the blind members of a profession that must retain the full confidence of medical men and their patients if it is to carry on useful work. The training for the examinations of the Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics in Massage, Remedial Exercises, and Electro-Therapy covers Ana- tomy, Physiology and Pathology and the Theory and Practice of Massage and Medical Gymnastics, including a working knowledge of the many conditions which can be treated by these methods. The examination falls into three parts, as under :— (a) A written examination in (1) Anatomy and Physiology; (2) Theory of Massage ; (3) Treatment. (6) A viva-voce examination in Anatomy and Physiology.
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