Occupation Atlasmassage therapist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/9487f835-b5a9-4742-8ecf-35520911e28c
massage therapist
Massage therapists provide therapeutic massage treatments to improve the well-being of their clients. They perform a variety of massage types such as shiatsu and swedish massage, according to their client's needs and preferences.
Compare with another occupationCompare with masseur/masseuse
Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
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Occupational interest profile
SRCSocial · Realistic · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.41
- R Realistic4.45
- C Conventional3.76
- I Investigative3.65
- A Artistic1.53
- E Enterprising1.31
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Physical Therapist Assistants (31-2021.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (21)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- apply massage therapy
- communicate with customers
- contraindications
- develop personalised massage plan
- discuss the medical history of the healthcare user
- empathise with the healthcare user
- give massages
- human anatomy
- identify customer's needs
- maintain customer service
- maintain personal hygiene standards
- maintain privacy of service users
- maintain work area cleanliness
- manage healthcare users' data
- massage theory
- massage types
- musculoskeletal anatomy
- provide health education
- skin types
- work ergonomically
Optional (45)
- administer appointments
- administer hydrotherapy
- administrative tasks in a medical environment
- apply acupuncture
- apply aromatherapy
- apply deep tissue massage
- apply sports massage
- apply thermotherapy
- balneotherapy
- carry out preventative internal medicine interventions
- comply with legislation related to health care
- conduct pregnancy massages
- cosmetic manicure
- cosmetic pedicure
- cosmetics
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- electrotherapy
- energy therapy
- etiopathy
- fasciatherapy
- health care legislation
- health care system
- human physiology
- hydrotherapy
- kinetics
- liaise with industry experts
- maintain equipment
- maintain professional administration
- manage a small-to-medium business
- manual lymphatic drainage massage
- order supplies
- pathology
- perform facial treatment
- phytotherapy
- pluck hair
- process medical insurance claims
- process payments
- provide individual exercise programmes
- reflexology
- rehabilitation
- reiki
- shiatsu
- sport and exercise medicine
- tai chi
- use hair removal lasers
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 21 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
masseur/masseuse
13 shared · 1 more of its owncontraindications, develop personalised massage plan, massage types, massage theory
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shiatsu practitioner
8 shared · 14 more of its ownmassage types, massage theory, maintain work area cleanliness, provide health education
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aromatherapist
8 shared · 21 more of its owndevelop personalised massage plan, discuss the medical history of the healthcare user, massage theory, apply massage therapy
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acupuncturist
7 shared · 26 more of its ownmanage healthcare users' data, maintain work area cleanliness, provide health education, empathise with the healthcare user
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pharmacist
6 shared · 59 more of its ownmanage healthcare users' data, provide health education, empathise with the healthcare user, human anatomy
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traditional chinese medicine therapist
5 shared · 18 more of its ownapply massage therapy, maintain work area cleanliness, empathise with the healthcare user, human anatomy
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herbal therapist
5 shared · 21 more of its ownmaintain work area cleanliness, provide health education, empathise with the healthcare user, human anatomy
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sophrologist
5 shared · 27 more of its ownmaintain work area cleanliness, provide health education, empathise with the healthcare user, human anatomy
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