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309.350 Definitions for KRS 309.350 to 309.364.
As used in KRS 309.350 to 309.364 unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Board" means the Kentucky Board of Licensure for Massage Therapy;
(2) "Board-approved massage program" means one which meets minimum
standards for training and curriculum as determined by the board;
(3) "Compensation" means the direct or indirect payment, loan, advance,
donation, contribution, deposit, barter, gratuity, or gift of money or anything of
value;
(4) "Feldenkrais Method" means a system of somatic education in which touch
and words are used to eliminate faulty habits, learn new patterns of
self-organization and action, and improve a persons own functional
movement patterns. The method is based on principles of physics,
biomechanics and an understanding of, or learning about, human
development. The practice is federally trademarked and requires permission
from the Feldenkrais Guild to use the term and methodology;
(5) "Massage therapist" means a person who is licensed by the board to
administer massage or massage therapy to the public for compensation;
(6) "Polarity therapy" means diverse applications affecting the human energy
system. These applications include energetic approaches to somatic contact,
verbal facilitation, nutrition, exercise, and health education. Polarity therapy
does not make medical claims, diagnose physical ailments, or allow
prescription of medications. Standards for schools, education, and practice, the
administration of a code of ethics, and a registration process are provided by
the American Polarity Therapy Association;
(7) "Practice of massage therapy" means the application, by a massage therapist
licensed by the board, of a system of structured touch, pressure, movement,
and holding to the soft tissues of the human body with the intent to enhance or
restore the health and well-being of the client. The practice includes the
external application of water, heat, cold, lubricants, salt scrubs, or other topical
preparations; use of electromechanical devices that mimic or enhance the
actions of the hands; and determination of whether massage therapy is
appropriate or contraindicated, or whether referral to another health care
practitioner is appropriate; and
(8) "Trager Approach" means a form of movement education that uses subtle
directed movements and the skilled touch of a practitioner. The Trager
Approach combines physical movement with sensory awareness and internal
imagery designed to increase the client's self-awareness and generate
physiological changes in the body tissues so as to allow the client to
experience a new way of moving his or her body. The practice is federally
trademarked.
Effective:July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 112, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2010. -Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 29, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2006. -- Created 2003
Ky. Acts ch. 45, sec. 1, effective June 24, 1003; and ch. 70, sec. 1, effective
June 24, 2003.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). Section 1 of 2006 Ky. Acts
ch. 29 (Senate Bill 91) made no changes to this statute. The changes to KRS
309.350 contained in the introduced version of the bill were eliminated by
Senate Floor Amendment 1, which was adopted by the Senate, after which
Senate Bill 91 was passed by both chambers with no changes to the existing
text of KRS 309.350.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/24/2003). 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 45, sec.
1, and 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 70, sec. 1, are substantially identical and have been
codified together.
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