There
are massage laws in Washington DC that prohibit people
from practicing as a massage therapist unless they have
completed 500 hours of training at a government regulated
massage school. We don't agree with these regulations
and Brandon Raynor, the President of the International
Natural Therapies Association is currently
travelling around the United States speaking out against
these massage laws that prohibit people from practicing
the various art forms of massage unless they are registered
with a state board and undergo one philosophical approach
to massage training. It's like an music school regulating
that nobody can practice playing a guitar unless they
attend their music school first.
Massage has its origins in many cultures of the world
such as Thailand, Hawaii, Japan, China, Turkey, Nepal
and India just to name a few. Each of these cultures
has a different approach to massage training and massage
therapy. The Washington DC community would best be served
by people having access to all these different therapies
as well as new and innovative therapies such as Raynor
massage that draw upon all these different approaches.
A massage board that dictates that only one philosophy
of training is the right one merely restricts innovation
and creativity and reduces the freedom to choose a health
practitioner for the people of Washington DC.
It is also very wrong that troops coming back from Iraq
and Afghanistan suffering from Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder don't have the ability to access the best forms
of therapy to help them with their conditions. The bureaucrats
that are stopping massage therapists trained in Raynor
massage and other forms of massage therapy should be
ashamed that they are not doing what they can to offer
internationally acclaimed therapies that are the best
for stress to our returning soldiers
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