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1) Massagers want a protection racket  by Anonymous Citizen on September 6, 2005 
In a perfect world you would be correct, Mike Hignite, but in this case you're on the wrong track. Like every other profession that comes running to Lansing seeking licensure in order to "protect the public" from "unscrupulous and incompetent practitioners," the real game here is to raise barriers to the entry of potential competititors, and thereby existing the existing "good old boy and girl" network to squeeze oligopoly profits out of consumers. Search this site for the word "licensure" to see a roundup of all the special interests that want to join the "protection racket state." (That is a term coined by ecomomics professor Stephen Dresch, comparing legislatures to mob rackets in their propensity to create new things to be "afraid of," and then provide "solutions" in the form of new laws and bigger government.)

2) State Licensing  by Mike Hignite on August 29, 2005 
If you are a certified massage therapist, advertise it. Have your professional association market and police it privately. If you have something to offer and the public recognizes it, great. You don't want the state to get into licensing your profession. It increases the fees, restricts trade, and does nothing to insure that anything would change in public perception of your occupation.

Your problem has no governmentally sanctioned solutions.

3) Professional Massage Practicioners and Therapist  by Anonymous Citizen on August 28, 2005 
I am a Certified Massage Therapist with training which meets or exceeds the NBTMBW. I find it imperative that the state of Michigan set standards for our professionals.

As much as I dislike big brother and legal regulations, I find this matter essential. I am tired of my profession being linked with cat houses or the entertainment field. I no longer want to read another bill or law in which massage is placed under the entertainment field.

This law would allow Massage to receive the respect of our local communities, health care systems, and the public as a whole. We should no longer be forced to take screenings for sexual communicable diseases in order to prove ourselves professional and able to practice.

As well, we need the same respect as Physical Theraist, Nurses, Hair Dressers, etc. It makes it much more difficult to set the standards when there are so many massage clinics practicing with out any education or certification.

I worked hard to get my certification and take my profession serious. This is not to say that there are massage therapist who have been practicing legitimatly in the communities with out certification, however there is still those clients out there which can not separate the difference between a cat house and a legitimate profession. Because prostitutes continually try to hide behind our profession, all legitimate massage therapist need to stand up and say, "Not in Our Profession!" If that means that those without certification need to get certified, then so be it.

As Therapist, we are able and equipt to provide that which most professions can not. We bridge the gap between Eastern and Western Health Modalities, and foster the holistic link which has been adopted by most hospitals. The research is in on Massage and it's therapeutic benefits from pregnancy to the elderly. There is no better time than today in massage, wither you are the provider or the receipient.

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