Md. Code Regs. 10.65.03.02

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 22, November 1, 2024

Section 10.65.03.02 - Definitions

A. In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.

B. Terms Defined.

(1) "Licensee" means an individual who is licensed by the Board to practice massage therapy.

(2) "Non bona fide treatment" means when a licensee or registrant treats or examines a client in a way that involves sexual contact, but there is no therapeutic reason for the procedure, or the procedure falls outside of reasonable massage therapy.

(3) "Registrant" means an individual who is registered by the Board to practice massage therapy in a setting that is not a health care setting.

(4) "Sexually exploitative relationship" means when sexual contact occurs in an existing therapeutic relationship between the massage therapist and the client or between the instructor and the student, or within a period of time after formal termination of the therapeutic or instructor-student relationship where the client or student may still be vulnerable to the power imbalance that exists in the relationship between the licensee or registrant and the client or student, even if the relationship may appear to be mutually consensual.

(5) "Therapeutic deception" means when a licensee or registrant misrepresents sexual conduct as a legitimate form of treatment or instruction to a client or a student.

Md. Code Regs. 10.65.03.02

Regulations .02 recodified from .02 effective 43:26 Md. R. 1446, eff. 1/2/2017; amended effective 51:15 Md. R. 710, eff. 8/5/2024.