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This Institute intends to:

Education

• Provide students with a solid foundation of knowledge in the basic and advanced principles of traditional Thai massage, while preserving the traditions upon which it is based.
  
  
• Promote current educational developments and advances within the massage schools of Thailand itself, including basic training in anatomy, physiology and pathology.
  
  
• Further extend such developments through optional detailed Western studies of body systems including biomechanics, postural analysis, and common principles of massage, energetic and manipulation therapies.
  
  
• Develop and offer continuing education programs.
  
  
• Maintain both traditional Thai and US massage industry Codes of Ethics and Standards of Practice.
  
  

Integration with Public Health Care

• Educate the general public on the nature and benefits of Thai therapies.
  
  
• Train and certify qualified and competent practitioners of both traditional and integrated Thai massage therapies.
  
  
• Promote Thai massage programs that lead to massage therapist licensure, thereby enabling practitioners to work within medical settings and/or provide services covered by insurance in the United States.
  
  

Research

• Continue research in the practical application of Thai massage through parallel study and comparison with the approaches of other modalities.
  
  
• Support research into the historical body of knowledge yet to be fully understood, both within its own frame of reference and through reverse study with similar approaches.