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309.363 Board approval of massage therapy program of instruction -Requirements -- Continuing education guidelines.
(1)
(2)
A person, institution, or business entity offering a massage therapy program of
instruction shall file a completed application for a certificate of good standing
with the board on a form prescribed by the board and pay a fee as specified in
KRS 309.357. The completed application shall provide proof acceptable to the
board that the following criteria have been met:
(a) The school is licensed to operate by the Kentucky Commission on
Proprietary Education, the Council on Postsecondary Education, or their
equivalent in another state;
(b) A curriculum statement showing clock hours devoted to each subject with
the following minimums:
1.
One hundred twenty-five (125) hours of anatomy, physiology, or
kinesiology;
2.
A two hundred (200) hour course to include massage theory,
technique, and practice focusing on gliding strokes, kneading, direct
pressure, deep friction, joint movement, superficial warming
techniques, percussion, compression, vibration, jostling, shaking,
and rocking;
3.
Two hundred (200) hours of approach to the business of massage,
specifically including contraindications, benefits, business, history,
ethics, client documentation, legalities of massage, and modality
courses designed to meet the school's specific program objectives;
4.
Forty (40) hours of pathology; and
5.
The school may use its discretion in allotting the additional thirty-five
(35) curricular hours that are required under KRS 309.358;
(c) A listing of instructional staff and their qualifications as follows:
1.
Instructors of the practical courses shall be licensed massage
therapists and shall have three (3) years of experience in the
practice of massage therapy;
2.
Instructors of science courses shall be either licensed massage
therapists with three (3) years of experience in the practice of
massage therapy or have certification or specific higher education in
the subject they are teaching; and
3.
Instructors in adjunctive courses shall have subject-specific
education and experience.
The board shall accept National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage
and Bodywork guidelines in approving continuing education.
Effective:July 12, 2012
History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 76, sec. 24, effective July 12, 2012. -Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 112, sec. 7, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended
2006 Ky. Acts ch. 29, sec. 10, effective July 12, 2006. -- Created 2003 Ky. Acts
ch. 45, sec. 14, effective June 24, 2003; and ch. 70, sec. 14, effective June 24,
2003.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/24/2003). 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 45,
sec. 14, and 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 70, sec. 14, are substantially identical and have
been codified together. The phrase "joint movement" in subparagraph (b) 2. of
subsection (1) of ch. 70, sec. 14, which passed the General Assembly last,
prevails over "joint mobilization" in the same subparagraph of ch. 45, sec. 14.
See KRS 446.250.
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