This expanded and updated text fully prepares massage therapy students for the latest massage therapy certifying exams, including NCETMB, NCETM, and MBLEx. PEARSON'S MASSAGE THERAPY EXAM REVIEW, 5/e supports a wide spectrum of students and learning types by providing many ways to study, including simple outlines; intuitive charts, figures, and tables; many exam related questions with answers and rationales; and video and PowerPoint in a brand-new online study component. It fully reflects major recent changes in the NCTMB exam, and now includes more visuals, as well as more content on ethics, business, medical terminology, aromatherapy and pharmacology — giving students an even more complete and useful study resource. Rev. ed. of: Success! in massage therapy / Jane S. Garofano. 4th ed., rev. c2009.

Medical terminology -- Organization of body, definitions, and cytology -- Integumentary system -- Skeletal system -- Muscular system/kinesiology -- Cardiovascular system -- Lymphatic system -- Respiratory system -- Nervous system -- Urinary system -- Digestive system -- Endocrine system -- Reproductive system -- 300 questions with answers and rational; anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology -- General pathology -- Pathology of systems -- Basic pharmacology -- 200 questions with answers and rationales; pathology and pharmacology -- History -- Massage and bodywork assessment -- Indications, benefits, and contraindications of massage -- Therapeutic massage and bodywork application -- Massage application : basic principles -- Massage application : methods and techniques -- CPR and first aid -- Hydrotherapy and aromatherapy -- 300 questions with answers and rationales therapeutic massage assessment/application -- Eastern energy bodywork -- Western energy bodywork -- Modalities Eastern and Western -- 100 questions with answers and rationales; energy bodywork -- Ethics of massage and bodywork/standards of practice and Professionalism -- Business and legal practices -- 100 questions with answers and rationales; ethics, standards, business, and legal -- Simulated NCETMB exam -- Simulated NCETM exam -- Simulated MBLEx exam.