How to register as a manual therapist (manuelle therapie) in Germany

Hi,

I got my degree in the UK and now I find myself in Germany and I keep hearing about "manuelle therapie", how superior manual therapists are and how if you want to further your career you need to do mauelle therapie. We did manual therapy as part of our degree and in the UK no official distinction is made between physios who are manual therapists or not.

Does anyone know how officially you become one. Is it as easy as doing a weekend course or must one do a longer, more expensive, more complicated course to gain official recognition?

Thanks in advance

P.S. Mann kann auch auf deutsch fragen aber mein englisch ist besser

hello, from Germany
if i may speak clearly, the extra qualifications asked in germany are a joke, just a way for so called schools to make money, they will ask you an endless number of weiterbindungen and in the end you are payed close to nothing, in France that is not needed and you earn more then 5 times more. do not do any courses , paying 5.000 euros or 1600, 1200 for lymph drainage. my advise is do not get in to that, there is the risk of they failling you the exam to make extra money, that has hapenned to me. good luck, by the way i need a adaptation period in the Uk if you can tell me of a place that accepts a physiotherapist for free, let me know. manuel