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(1) Nothing in this article prohibits or requires a massage therapy registration for any of the following:

 (a) The practice of massage therapy that is a part of a program of study by students enrolled in a massage

therapy program at an approved massage therapy school. Students enrolled in such programs shall be

identified as “student massage therapists” and shall not hold themselves out as registered massage therapists.

Student massage therapists shall practice massage therapy only under the immediate supervision of a

massage therapist holding a valid and current registration. Faculty members teaching nonclinical aspects of

massage therapy shall not be required to be registered massage therapists.

 (b) The practice of massage therapy by a person employed by the United States government or any federal

governmental entity while acting in the course and scope of such employment;

 (c) The practice of massage therapy by a person who is a resident of another state and who is in Colorado

temporarily under one of the following circumstances:

 (I) The person is traveling with and administering massage therapy to members of a professional or amateur

sports organization, dance troupe, or other such athletic organization;

 (II) The person provides massage therapy, without compensation, at a public athletic event such as the

olympic games, special olympics, youth olympics, or marathons, if the massage therapy is provided no earlier

than forty-eight hours prior to the commencement of the event and no later than twenty-four hours after the

conclusion of the event;

(III) The person is part of an emergency response team or is otherwise working with or for disaster relief

officials to provide massage therapy in connection with a disaster situation; or

(IV) The person is participating as a student in or instructor of an educational program, if:

(A) The program does not exceed sixteen days in duration; or

 (B) The program exceeds sixteen days in duration and the person obtains a grant of an extension of time

from the director prior to the seventeenth day;

 (d) The person provides massage therapy to members of the person's immediate family;

(e) The person provides alternative methods that employ contact and does not hold himself or herself out as

a massage therapist. For the purposes of this paragraph

 (e), “alternative methods that employ contact” include, but are not limited to:

(I) Practices in which only the soft tissue of a person's hands, feet, or ears are manipulated;

(II) Practices using touch, words, and directed movements to deepen a person's awareness of movement

patterns in his or her body, such as the Feldenkrais method, the Trager approach, and body-mind centering;

(III) Practices using touch to affect the human energy systems, such as reiki, shiatsu, and Asian or polarity

bodywork therapy;

 (IV) Structural integration practices such as Rolfing and Hellerwork; and

(V) The process of muscle activation techniques.

(f) (I) The practice of animal massage if the person performing massage on an animal:

 (A) Does not prescribe drugs, perform surgery, or diagnose medical conditions

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