130 Cook Road
Lebanon, Ohio 45036

SHI Integrative Medical Massage and Traditional Chinese Acupuncture school has more than 20 years of experience, training students for successful careers in massage and acupuncture. The caring faculty encourages each student's personal and professional growth, while the school's comprehensive programs ensure SHI students receive a well-rounded education.

SHI Integrative Medical Massage and Traditional Chinese Acupuncture School offers a diploma program as well as associate degrees in integrative medical massage through its partnership with Sinclair Community College and Cincinnati State Technical community college. The acupuncture program is for students who have completed at least 60 semester or 90 quarter credit hours of college education. The curriculum is based on an integrative model of healthcare and covers theories, principles, and practices of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine.

The three-year acupuncture program is offered in three 15 week semesters each year. The medical massage program's curriculum includes human anatomy and physiology, systematic pathology, structural pathology, Swedish massage, craniosacral therapy, myoneural therapy, muscle energy concepts, positional release, trigger point therapy, myofascial therapy, professional ethics, hydrotherapy and thermal modalities, business practices, Ohio law, outreach experience, and student clinic.

SHI Medical Massage also provides graduate studies in myoneural therapy (whole body series), TouchPro chair massage, positional release, reflexology, myofascial therapy, massage therapy and cancer, advanced medical massage, entrepreneurial styles/Myers-Briggs, professional ethics, neuromuscular therapy, and craniosacral therapy.

Quick Facts

SHI Integrative Medical Massage and Traditional Chinese Acupuncture School is located 20 minutes from Dayton and 15 minutes from Cincinnati. The campus has a meditation garden for relaxation amd quiet time. There is also an organic vegetable garden that was organized by the students.

SHI's courses begin in the fall and spring. There are day and evening courses available.

Financial assistance is available through several payment options as well as deferred low interest loans provided by Sallie Mae Financial.

SHI Integrative Medical Massage and Traditional Chinese Acupuncture School's graduates qualify to sit for the Ohio State Medical Board licensure examination in massage therapy and the national certification exam.

SHI is approved by the Ohio Medical Board and State of Ohio Board of Careers Colleges and Schools.

SHI has professional memberships with the American Therapy Association, Ohio Association of Career Colleges and Schools, International Massage and Movement Schools and Teachers Association, and the Local Better Business Bureaus.

This school profile has been compiled and updated by The CollegeBound Network. The school is not affiliated with The CollegeBound Network and shall not be considered a sponsor of this program.