HAR §16-84-48. Requirements for massage students

(a) The student program shall consist of not less then five hundred seventy hours. In addition, the student shall successfully complete a cardiopulmonary resuscitation training program. (b) The curriculum of the massage school shall contain the following: (1) Not less than fifty hours of anatomy, physiology, and structural kinesiology: (2) Not less than one hundred hours of theory and demonstration of massage which shall include: (A) The proper procedure in massaging (concerning the protection of both client and massage therapist); (B) Record keeping; (C) Hygiene; (D) Theory; (E) Technique for specific conditions; (F) Contraindications of massage for specific techniques according to conditions; (G) Draping; and (H) Assessment of the client’s condition and the general technique to the applied; (3) Not less than four hundred and twenty hours of practical massage training under the supervision of a teacher in a school setting. (c) Students who complete a course consisting of at least five hundred and seventy hours course from a curriculum approved school by the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) or the Rolf Institute shall be eligible to sit for the written clinical competency examination. (d) Students who complete a course of study in a school approved by the state department of education shall be eligible to sit for the written clinical competency examination if the curriculum of the school meets the requirements of subsection (b). (e) An applicant shall provide the board with written proof that the applicant has successfully completed the required course of study in a massage school approved by the department of education, American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), or the Rolf Institute. [Eff and comp 3/26/90] (Auth: HRS §452-6) (Imp: HRS §452-6) 84-13 Amendments to and compilation of chapter 16-84, Hawaii Administrative Rules, on the Summary Page dated January 31, 1990, were adopted on January 31, 1990, following a public hearing held on January 31, 1990, after public notices were given in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and Honolulu Advertiser, The Garden Island, West Hawaii Today, Maui News, and Hawaii Tribune-Herald on December 24, 1989. They shall take effect ten days after filing with the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. /s/ Edson Hoo EDSON HOO, Chairman Board of Massage Therapy APPROVED AS TO FORM: Date 2/23/90 /s/ Deborah Day Emerson Deputy Attorney General APPROVED: Date 3/6/90 /s/ Robert A. Alm ROBERT A. ALM Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs /s/ John Waihee Governor of Hawaii March 15, 1990 Filed 84-15 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS Amendment and Compilation of Chapter 16-84 Hawaii Administrative Rules January 31, 1990 SUMMARY 1. Title is amended. 2.