Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 345 - RULES OF GEORGIA BOARD OF MASSAGE THERAPY › Chapter 345-8 - REQUIREMENTS - BOARD RECOGNIZED MASSAGE THERAPY EDUCATION PROGRAM › Rule 345-8-.01 - Curriculum Requirements. Amended

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
In order to be a Georgia Board recognized massage therapy
				education program, the program must have a minimum curriculum of five-hundred
				(500) total clock hours of supervised classroom and supervised hands-on
				instruction. For purposes of this rule,"supervised" means the supervisor is
				physically on-site, qualified and immediately available. The minimum required
				subject matter and activities and the minimum required hours are as
				follows:
(a) A minimum of one hundred
			 twenty-five (125) hours of in-class supervised instruction in human anatomy,
			 physiology and kinesiology;
(b) A
			 minimum of forty (40) hours of in-class supervised instruction in
			 pathology;
(c) A minimum of
			 two-hundred hours (200) in massage therapy theory, technique and practice,
			 which must include in-class supervised instruction of clinical techniques and
			 hands-on clinical practice and must include, at a minimum, the following
			 subject matters: effleurage/gliding; petrissage/kneading; compression;
			 friction, tapotement/percussion; vibration; direct pressure; superficial
			 warming techniques; pumping; stretching; jostling; shaking; rocking;
(d) A minimum of one hundred twenty-five
			 (125) hours of in-class supervised instruction in contraindications, benefits,
			 universal precautions, body mechanics, massage history, client data collection,
			 documentation, and legalities of massage, professional standards including
			 draping and modesty, therapeutic relationships and communications;
(e) A minimum of ten (10) hours of in-class
			 supervised instruction in ethics and business (to include a minimum of six (6)
			 hours in ethics); and,
(f) Of the
			 five hundred (500) total clock hours, the curriculum must include a minimum of
			 fifty (50) hours in supervised student clinical practice, but no more than
			 sixty (60) hours in supervised student clinical practice. Nothing in this rule
			 shall be construed to prohibit a massage therapy school that has a curriculum
			 greater than five hundred (500) hours from having more supervised student
			 clinical practice so long as it has at least four hundred and forty (440) hours
			 of in-class supervised instruction.
(g) If an applicant transfers from another
			 massage therapy education program into a massage therapy education program
			 recognized by this Board and any of the clock hours from the original
			 program(s) are accepted as a part of the program to which the applicant
			 transferred, the name of the original program and the clock hours accepted from
			 that program must be identified on the transcript provided to the Board. If the
			 transferred hours are not from a board recognized massage therapy education
			 program, the hours may not be used to satisfy the curriculum requirements of
			 this rule.
O.C.G.A. §§
									43-1-25,  43-24A-3(4),  43-24A-8(6).