If you are a massage feel proud of it. Because the profession of Massage has been recognized since October 5, 1961, through the Federal Law 3968, which governs the profession of Massage. Since long before, on December 10, 1945, Decree-Law 8345, PROVIDES FOR AUTHORIZATION TO EXERCISE professional massage.
Legal recognition of massage and various other pre-health professions, such as: Physiotherapy, Psychologist, Professional Physical Education, Nursing etc..
Unfortunately the law regulating the profession of massage is outdated. That's not to say that massage is no longer a regulated profession. For it is not only a privilege of the masseur. Because most of the laws governing the professions, especially health care, are outdated due to changes in axiological and epistemological views that led the company at the end of last century and the beginning of this millennium, they have other new paradigms. One was the collapse of Cartesian and positivist who left various sequels within the scientific and social contexts. For today we have new concepts, humanistic and less mechanistic, focusing on holism, where the individual is seen within a psicobioespiritual approach (body, mind and spirit).
Because the connection to the spa massage to other sexual activities cleats, male and female prostitution, many professional massage call themselves massage therapists. But it is important to remember that the profession is massage, regulated in our country through a federal law. While massage therapy and the use of MASSAGE THERAPY how. And the massage therapist is the individual who is professional massage, because that is what determines federal law, is that making use of massage for therapeutic purposes. As the profession
MASSAGE is already regulated by federal law, what should be done is to change this law, adapting it to current social reality, and put into practice in the interests of various professional massage, the various lines throughout our country. Even among
called alternative therapies, complementary or holistic in Brazil as the only regulated profession is massage, which is professional massage. No other activity is regulated holistic therapy as a profession. Even
Acupuncture, which is only recognized to practice in various professions complementary health care, through resolutions of their class councils, which in turn limited their recorded in a professional manner.
As a professional massage is supported by federal law and the massage is your tool, it is obvious that other professionals without qualifications in massage, even health care, has no right of professional practice as massage.
