Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part XLIV - Massage Therapists › Chapter 11 - Educational Qualifications › Section XLIV-1101 - Educational Qualifications for Licensure

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. A person desiring to be licensed as a
				massage therapist must be able to read, write, speak and understand English and
				shall provide evidence to the board of compliance with the requirements set
				forth in §1301 of this
				Part.
B. The person shall also
				provide evidence of having satisfactorily completed massage therapy studies in
				a minimum of 500 in-class hours or the equivalent number of credit hours as set
				forth or required by federal regulations of a supervised course of instruction.
				The course of instruction must be provided by any proprietary school licensed
				by the Board of Regents, or appropriate governing body of any state and
				approved by the Board of Massage Therapy, or a supervised massage therapy
				course of study offered by a public entity, community college or technical
				school regulated by the state of Louisiana that meets the education
				requirements of this Chapter. In order for an out-of-state course of
				instruction to be considered acceptable as part of the licensure requirements
				for the state of Louisiana, the school providing the course of study must be
				licensed or approved by the state where the school is located at the time the
				application is submitted or the person must provide written verification from
				that state that the school was duly licensed or approved at the time the course
				was taken. The minimum 500 in-class hours shall consist of 325 hours dedicated
				to the study of massage therapy techniques and clinical practicum-related
				modalities, 125 hours dedicated to the study of anatomy and physiology, and 50
				hours of discretionary related course work including, but not limited to,
				hydrotherapy, business practices and professional ethics, health and hygiene,
				and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first aid. If the applicant is
				submitting an educational transcript from any Louisiana or out-of-state school
				and the transcript does not allow a determination of in-class or clock hours,
				the school must submit information necessary to convert credit hours shown on
				the transcript into class hours to demonstrate that the applicant has met the
				educational requirements of 500 in-class hours. It is the applicant's
				responsibility to obtain the necessary information to demonstrate compliance
				with the educational requirements. An individual with military training and
				experience will be considered to have completed the educational requirements
				for this Section when the service member has been awarded a military
				occupational specialty and performance in that specialty is at a level equal to
				or exceeding the requirements of this Section.
C. In order to satisfactorily complete course
				requirements to be eligible for licensure, massage school students must have
				graduated from the school with passing grades and must have attended at least
				90 percent of class hours in each subject matter offered in the supervised
				course of instruction, as reflected by attendance records taken at the
				beginning of each class meeting. The Board of Massage Therapy's inspector is
				authorized to review attendance and course records and to conduct monitoring as
				spot-site visits, either directly or through a duly authorized designee, to
				determine whether scheduled classes are being held and whether all students
				recorded as present are present for the entire class period. If documentation,
				satisfactory to the Board of Massage Therapy, of student attendance is not
				maintained by a massage therapy school or if the documentation includes classes
				that were not held or shows students as present who were not present for the
				full class period, the Board of Massage Therapy may deny eligibility for state
				licensure to graduates who attended the school during the period that
				attendance was not adequately or correctly documented.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  37:3551 et seq., and
				  R.S.
				  37:3555 et
				  seq.