Just letting everyone know that the 12/17 meeting of the board is listed as cancelled on the website. Happy Holidays.

Interesting and thank you for reporting back on that.

BTW: Did you know 1/24 and 2/28 are Mondays and 3/27 is on a Sunday. At least in my calendar. Have I slipped into the twilight zone? I will ask Michael.

No idea, it's not required yet though.

Jessica, if you ever have questions about the State's requirements, here's a link to their website:

http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=ocasubtopic&L=4&L0=Home&L1=...

Here's the agenda for Monday's Board meeting, looks like they are considering adding an exam requirement:

DATE: January 24, 2011                  

PLACE: Room 1C

1000 Washington Street,
Boston, MA 02118-6100

TIME: 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Item 1) 10:00 a.m.      Meeting called to order

• Facility Briefing

Item 2) 10:05 a.m.      Board Minutes:

• November 19, 2010 minutes

Item 3) 10:10 a.m.      Discussion on NCBTMB

• Consideration of NCETM as massage licensure requirement

Item 4) 10:40 p.m.      Application Reviews

Item 5) 11:00 a.m.      Prosecution Cases [closed session pursuant to MGL c. 112, §65C] 

Item 6) 11:15 a.m.      Investigative Session [closed session pursuant to MGL c. 112, §65C]

Item 7) 1:15 p.m.        Break

Item 8) 1:30 p.m.        Candidate Interviews: 
[Executive Session – closed session pursuant to G.L.30A §21(1)]  

Item 9) 2:30 p.m.        More Application Reviews 

Hey everyone

I need three more people to partake in the test pilto Pediatric Massage for Children with Special Needs course offering 20 CE's.

NCBTMB approved.

Touch-For-Life.Com for more inforamtion

Thank you

Here's the agenda for Monday's Board meeting:

DATE: February 28, 2011                 

PLACE:  Room 1C
1000 Washington Street,
Boston, MA 02118-6100

TIME: 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Item 1) 10:00 a.m.      Meeting called to order

• Facility Briefing

Item 2) 10:05 a.m.      Board Minutes:

• January 24, 2010 minutes

Item 3) 10:10 a.m.      Application Reviews and Discussion

• How can clinical requirement be fulfilled for students who graduated in past years?

Item 4) 11:00 a.m.      Prosecution Cases [closed session pursuant to MGL c. 112, §65C] 

Item 5) 11:15 a.m.      Investigative Session [closed session pursuant to MGL c. 112, §65C]

Item 6) 1:15 p.m.        Break

Item 7) 1:30 p.m.        Candidate Interviews: [Executive Session – closed session pursuant to G.L.30A §21(1)]  

Item 8) 2:30 p.m.        More Application Reviews

Introduction:

I'm new to the group. While I don't live in Massachusetts, I'm interested in keeping in touch and sharing information. I have a friend whose father is living in Yarmouth Point in a beautiful retirement community called Heatherwood and I'll be visiting in May.

My previous Massachusetts connection was in the early 90s, when I visit Kripalu in Lenox and attended an "Awakening the Inner Healer" workshop. I remember how beautiful the Spring daffodils were at Kripalu.

Thanks to Lisa for creating such a wonderful community of Massachusetts massage therapists and friends. 

I wanted to extend an invitation to join my  holistic directory for massage therapists..the basic listing is free.

Synergistic Healing

A new bill is in the senate, that would change the scope of practice and up the hours to 900.  Check out the grandfathering language.

SECTION 1. Section 227 of chapter 112 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2008 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out lines 18 through 21 and inserting in place thereof the following sentence: -

Massage therapy shall include the prescription of stretching techniques and exercises but shall specifically not include diagnoses, the prescribing of drugs or medicines, spinal or other joint manipulations or any services or procedures for which a license to practice medicine, chiropractic, occupational therapy or podiatry is required by law.

SECTION 2. Section 229 of chapter 112 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2008 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out subsection (a)(5) and inserting in place thereof the following subsection: -

(a)(5) he shall have successfully completed a course of study consisting of at least 900 classroom hours at an accredited massage school which shall consist of 200 hours of anatomy, physiology, and pathology, 150 hours of kinesiology and/or mycology, 50 hours in the subject of hygiene, first aid, CPR, HIV including the instruction of infection control procedures, 180 hours of general theory and applications of massage therapy, 200 hours of additional instruction including a minimum of 75 hours of ethics, law, and business practices, and 120 hours of actual hands-on practical massage therapy in a clinic or other supervised setting;

SECTION 3, Said section 229 of said chapter 112 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by adding after subsection (c), the following subsection:-

(d) The board shall renew existing practitioners who, within a twelve month period following the effective date of this section have done one of the following: (1) completed 150 hours of continuing education as prescribed by the board; (2) passed the nation certification board for therapeutic massage and bodywork (NCBTMB) certification examination; or (3) is able to demonstrate that the applicant has been in active continuous practice of massage therapy for at least five years immediately preceding the effective date of this section

Bill S00090 By Ms. Chang-Diaz, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 90) of Hedlund and Chang-Diaz for legislation relative to massage therapist licensure [Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure].