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Volume 58, No. 8

58/2015

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

April 21, 2015

B.C. Reg. 58/2015 , deposited April 20, 2015, under the HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT [section 12 (2)]. Ministerial Order M102/2015, dated April 14, 2015.

I, Terry Lake, Minister of Health, order that the Massage Therapists Regulation, B.C. Reg. 280/2008, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— T. LAKE, Minister of Health .

Schedule

Section 1 of the Massage Therapists Regulation, B.C. Reg. 280/2008, is amended by repealing the definition of “massage therapy” and substituting the following:

“massage therapy” means the health profession in which a person provides, for the purposes of developing, maintaining, rehabilitating or augmenting physical function, or relieving pain or promoting health, the services of

(

a) assessment of soft tissue and joints of the body, and

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b) treatment and prevention of physical dysfunction, injury, pain and disorders of soft tissue and joints of the body by manipulation, mobilization and other manual methods.

Section 5 is repealed.

Section 6 is repealed and the following substituted:

Limits or conditions on services

6 No registrant may

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a) prescribe or administer drugs or anaesthetics,

(

b) treat a recent fracture of a bone,

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c) apply any form of medical electricity, or

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d) move a joint of the spine beyond the limits the body can voluntarily achieve using a high velocity, low amplitude thrust.

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