Alabama Administrative Code › Title 532 - ALABAMA BOARD OF MASSAGE THERAPY › Chapter 532-X-1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 532-X-1-.02 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) In addition to
			 those definitions contained in
Code of Ala. 1975
,
			 §
								34-43-4, the following definitions
			 apply in connection with these rules.
(a)
			 "Act" refers to 1996 Ala. Act No. 96-661.
(b) "Course" is any outline or play of study,
			 or portion of a plan or program of instruction involving the imparting of
			 knowledge, skills, or attitudes for the purpose of preparing the individual for
			 gainful employment in an occupation nor vocation, or continuing the
			 individual's education in said occupation or vocation, whether conducted in
			 person, by mail, or by any other method.
(c) "Curriculum" is a group of organized
			 programs.
(d) "Deny" is to refuse
			 the issuance of a license upon initial application review or upon license
			 renewal review.
(e) "Establishment"
			 is a site, premises, business or operation where massage therapy is practiced
			 by a licensed massage therapist. Any massage therapy business which engages in
			 or carries on, as the whole or part of its services, the practice of massage
			 therapy not at a fixed location but at a location designated by the customer,
			 client, or service, is an on-site or out-call massage therapy
			 establishment.
(f) "Examination" as
			 approved by the Board and is offered by a national organization.
(g) "Massage Therapist" is a person licensed
			 under this Act who practices massage therapy or touch modalities upon a patron
			 of either gender for compensation, working to alleviate pain, reduced stress,
			 and instigate the normalization of the soft tissue, muscles, tendons,
			 ligaments, and connective tissue of the patron. A massage therapist shall not
			 be designated as a "massage parlor" employee.
(h) "Massage Therapy" is the profession in
			 which the practitioner applies massage techniques and related touch therapy
			 modalities with the intention of positively affecting the health and well being
			 of the client as defined in the Act. Massage Therapy does not include diagnosis
			 except to the extent of determining whether massage therapy is indicated.
			 Massage Therapy may be applied in response to physician, osteopathic,
			 chiropractic, podiatric, or other prescription by a licensed practitioner in
			 that field acting within the scope of his or her profession.
(i) "Native American Healer" is a person who
			 can establish by information, contained on his or her birth certificate, by
			 tribal records or by other reliable records, that he or she is an American
			 Indian or Alaskan Native, having origins in any of the original peoples of
			 North America, as definite in
Code of Ala. 1975
,
			 Section 25-1-10, and who practices
			 traditional healing techniques.
(j)
			 "School" is any institution, agency, business, or organization offering or
			 administering a plan, course, or curriculum for the purpose of preparing
			 individuals for gainful employment in an occupation, vocation, or continuing
			 education of individuals in their occupation or vocation, whether conducted in
			 person, by mail, or by any other method.
(k) "Supervised Massage" is the viewing or
			 monitoring of a student demonstrating hands-on massage therapy by a licensed
			 massage therapy instructor of Alabama licensed massage therapist.
(l) "Student of Massage Therapy" is any
			 person currently enrolled in an Alabama massage therapy school program approved
			 by the Board.
(m) "Scope of
			 Practice" a licensed massage therapist (LMT) shall only perform the massage,
			 bodywork and techniques for which they have been trained as stated on their
			 transcript from massage therapy school/program or continuing education provider
			 certificate.
(n) "Intergluetal
			 Cleft"or gluteal cleft, also known by a number of synonyms, including natal
			 cleft, or cluneal cleft, is the groove between the buttocks that runs from just
			 below the sacrum to the perineum, so named because it forms the visible border
			 between the external rounded protrusions of the gluteus maximum
			 muscles.
(o) "Buttock" is either of
			 the two round fleshy parts that from the lower rear of human trunk.