College of Therapeutic Medicine

RainStar University is one of the few universities of holistic health care that operates and subsidizes a full-time and Professional Therapy Center.
The Therapy Center is open 9am until 10pm. Monday through Friday and 9am until 6pm on Saturdays. We are closed on all major holidays.

The Therapy Center performs over 20,000 treatments per year and provides therapy six days a week by our staff of licensed professionals, along with student therapeutic massage and acupuncture practitioners.

RainStar University Therapy Center and Clinic provides holistic health care for all agesWe have a large, diverse, and active patient base of several thousand clients with a variety of ailments and unique situations for RainStar University students to practice on as they fulfill their internship requirements while under the supervision of a Licensed Acupuncturist or Licensed Massage Therapist.

The Therapy Center has fifteen individual rooms along with an extensive herbal medicinary. The massage students offer a variety of bodywork approaches including Eastern Modalities, Myofasical Release, Reflexology, Sports Massage, Lymphatic Drainage, Deep Tissue, Pregnancy, Craniosacral, Thai, Lomi Lomi and Swedish Massage (please see Advanced Treatments.)

RainStar University Acupuncture students study herbal therapiesThe Acupuncture student practitioners focus on Oriental medicine, recognized as one of the oldest Chinese teachings, that includes acupuncture, herbal therapies, Tui Na, etc. It provides the body with energetic balance, which is important to maintain health and wellness on all levels. Our experienced staff of licensed practitioners, most of who have trained in China, supervise the acupuncture student practitioners.

Curriculum for Life:
The Vision of the Integrative Medical Therapy Center and Clinic
The best service that a school can provide to its student body is practical real life experience. Schools tend to do a good job of providing theories, information and ideas; but how many give practical life experience specific to the student's job market? The skills learned in the classroom rarely translate into effective work practices in the field. Are the skills necessary to survive in today's marketplace taught? More importantly, are the students integrating the information so that it becomes a part of who they are? How many students can feel confident walking into a new job without fear of the unknown? We are proud to say that RainStar University graduates can!

And a Mission Statement is born:
To support and direct the knowledge and techniques learned in the classroom to real life circumstances that students may encounter. To facilitate insight and experience into the collaboration with other medical team members so students will become knowledgeable and effective therapists.
The Classroom
The curriculum for the College of Therapeutic Massage includes five main areas of study: Massage, Science, Health, Business and General Education. The curriculum is competency based in which the College conducts, considers and applies significant research in designing its program that leads to constant and never ending improvement. The competency based curriculum is linked to clear, quantifiable, challenging standards of meaningful demonstrations of knowledge and skills. But, we feel that this is not enough.

Stepping Out of the Classroom
So often in the classroom, theoretical situations arise in which probable solutions are given. Unfortunately, how we think we will respond and how we actually react are seldom congruent. If you factor in the endless amounts of variables to those situations, it is enough to scare any seasoned individual. This is the reality of the classroom's limitations. So that leaves us with the important question of, how do we adequately prepare our students for real life? Our solution was to duplicate those situations in which students will encounter and allow them to experience and evaluate under the safe harbor of the College.