Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 59-4200.3

Restrictions on practicing massage therapy

A. Unless a person is a licensed massage therapist, a person

shall not:

1. Use the title of massage therapist;

2. Represent himself or herself to be a massage therapist;

3. Use any other title, words, abbreviations, letters, figures,

signs or devices that indicate the person is a massage therapist; or

4. Utilize the terms "massage", "massage therapy" or "massage

therapist" when advertising or printing promotional material.

B. A person shall not maintain, manage or operate a massage

therapy school offering education, instruction or training in

massage therapy unless the school is a licensed massage therapy

school pursuant to Section 7 of this act.

C. Individuals practicing massage therapy under the Massage

Therapy Practice Act shall not perform any of the following:

1. Diagnosis of illness or disease;

2. High-velocity, low-amplitude thrust;

3. Electrical stimulation;

4. Application of ultrasound;

5. Use of any technique that interrupts or breaks the skin; or

6. Prescribing of medicines.

D. Nothing in the Massage Therapy Practice Act shall be

construed to prevent:

1. Qualified members of other recognized professions who are

licensed or regulated under Oklahoma law from rendering services

within the scope of the license of the person, provided the person

does not represent himself or herself as a massage therapist. A

physician or other licensed health care provider providing health

care services within the scope of practice of the physician or

provider shall not be required to be licensed by or registered with

the State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering;

2. Students from rendering massage therapy services within the

course of study when enrolled at a licensed massage therapy school;

3. Visiting massage therapy instructors from another state or

territory of the United States, the District of Columbia or any

foreign nation from teaching massage therapy, provided the

instructor is duly licensed or registered, if required, and is

qualified in the instructor's place of residence for the practice of

massage therapy;

4. Any nonresident person holding a current license,

registration or certification in massage therapy from another state

or recognized national certification system determined as acceptable

by the Board when temporarily present in this state from providing

massage therapy services as a part of an emergency response team

working in conjunction with disaster relief officials or at special

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events such as conventions, sporting events, educational field

trips, conferences, traveling shows or exhibitions;

5. Physicians or other health care professionals from

appropriately referring to duly licensed massage therapists or limit

in any way the right of direct access of the public to licensed

massage therapists; or

6. The practice of any person in this state who uses touch,

words and directed movement to deepen awareness of existing patterns

of movement in the body as well as to suggest new possibilities of

movement while engaged within the scope of practice of a profession

with established standards and ethics, provided that the services

are not designated or implied to be massage or massage therapy.

Practices shall include but are not limited to the Feldenkrais

Method of somatic education, Rolf Movement Integration by the Rolf

Institute, the Trager Approach of movement education, and Body-Mind

Centering. Practitioners shall be recognized by or meet the

established standards of either a professional organization or

credentialing agency that represents or certifies the respective

practice based on a minimal level of training, demonstration of

competency, and adherence to ethical standards.

E. A physician or other licensed health care provider providing

health care services within their scope of practice shall not be
recognized by or meet the

established standards of either a professional organization or

credentialing agency that represents or certifies the respective

practice based on a minimal level of training, demonstration of

competency, and adherence to ethical standards.

E. A physician or other licensed health care provider providing

health care services within their scope of practice shall not be

required to be licensed or registered with the State Board of

Cosmetology.