What are some of the laws in Europe or wherever you are on massage therapy.?

[jeff rockout]

I am in the US and considering it as a career, and here in most states you need to take a 500 hr course. Is there a test you could take that doesn't require the class time and were are different schools acknowledged so that the credits or class time overlap?

I may have to take physical therapist assistant first on account of funding, any comments on that?
On account of stimulas money will not go to massage therapy in tennessee,,, any states that it will?
I believe it may be called physiotherapy for you easterners