Ala. Admin. Code r. 532-X-1-.02

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 1, October 31, 2024

Section 532-X-1-.02 - [Effective 1/4/2025] [Effective until 11/14/2024] Definitions

(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.

Ala. Admin. Code r. 532-X-1-.02

New Rule: Filed January 29, 2001; effective 3/5/2001. Amended: Filed November 9, 2006; effective 12/14/2006. Amended: Filed February 10, 2012; effective 3/16/2012.

Amended by Alabama Administrative Monthly Volume XLI, Issue No. 12, September 29, 2023, eff. 11/13/2023.

Adopted by Alabama Administrative Monthly Volume XLII, Issue No. 12, September 30, 2024, eff. 9/20/2024; expires 106 days, 1/4/2025 (Emergency).

Author: Keith E. Warren

Statutory Authority:Code of Ala. 1975, § 34-43-6.