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2019 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title XXX - Occupations and Professions
Chapter 328-B - Massage Therapists and Massage Establishments
Section 328-B:10 - Exemptions; Application of Chapter.
Universal Citation: NH Rev Stat § 328-B:10 (2019)
328-B:10 Exemptions; Application of Chapter. –
I. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a person licensed by this state pursuant to any other provision of law, or any person employed by such a licensee as an assistant, from performing the occupation for which he or she is licensed.
II. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent or restrict the practice of any person in this state who uses touch, words, and directed movement to deepen awareness of existing patterns of movement as well as to suggest new possibilities of movement, while engaged within the scope of practice of a profession with established standards and ethics, provided that their services are not designated as or implied to be massage or massage therapy. Such practices include, but are not limited to the Feldenkrais method of somatic education, the Trager approach to movement education, the Alexander technique, and body-mind centering.
III. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent or restrict the practice of any person in this state who uses energy or superficial touch to affect the energy systems of the human body while engaged within the scope of practice of a profession with established standards and ethics, provided that their services are not designated as or implied to be massage or massage therapy. Such practices include, but are not limited to, polarity therapy, therapeutic touch, Bowen therapy, and reiki.
I. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a person licensed by this state pursuant to any other provision of law, or any person employed by such a licensee as an assistant, from performing the occupation for which he or she is licensed.
II. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent or restrict the practice of any person in this state who uses touch, words, and directed movement to deepen awareness of existing patterns of movement as well as to suggest new possibilities of movement, while engaged within the scope of practice of a profession with established standards and ethics, provided that their services are not designated as or implied to be massage or massage therapy. Such practices include, but are not limited to the Feldenkrais method of somatic education, the Trager approach to movement education, the Alexander technique, and body-mind centering.
III. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent or restrict the practice of any person in this state who uses energy or superficial touch to affect the energy systems of the human body while engaged within the scope of practice of a profession with established standards and ethics, provided that their services are not designated as or implied to be massage or massage therapy. Such practices include, but are not limited to, polarity therapy, therapeutic touch, Bowen therapy, and reiki.
Source. 1990, 12:1. 1995, 310:183. 2009, 64:12. 2016, 137:1, eff. May 27, 2016.
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