(1) The National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork is a program currently accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies and its curriculum guidelines meet or exceed the requirements of 37-33-502, MCA. Those curriculum guidelines are as follows:
- (a) 200 hours of in-class and instructor-supervised massage and bodywork assessment, theory, and application instruction;
- (b) 125 hours of instruction on the body systems (anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology);
- (c) 40 hours of pathology;
- (d) ten hours of business and ethics instruction (a minimum of six hours in ethics); and
- (e) 125 hours of instruction in an area or related field that completes the massage program of study.
- (2) Other curriculum guideline submissions will be evaluated by the board for compliance with 37-33-502, MCA, on a case-by-case basis.
Authorizing statute(s): 37-1-131, 37-33-405, MCA
Implementing statute(s): 37-1-131, 37-33-502, MCA
History: NEW, 2010 MAR p. 1185, Eff. 5/14/10.