Massage Therapy

Kris Chiles
Section Administrator

Mental Health & Consumer Services

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Massage Therapy means the physical, mechanical, or electrical manipulation of soft tissue for the therapeutic purposes of enhancing muscle relaxation, reducing stress, improving circulation, or instilling a greater sense of well-being and may include the use of oil, salt glows, heat lamps, and hydrotherapy.

It shall not include diagnosis or treatment or use of procedures for which a license to practice medicine or surgery, chiropractic, or podiatry, is required nor the use of microwave diathermy, shortwave diathermy, ultrasound, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, electrical stimulation of over thirty-five volts, neurological hyperstimulation or spinal and joint adjustments.

Licensure Exceptions: The following are NOT required to obtain a massage therapy license ( Statutes Relating to Massage Therapy, Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1,279;): 1) Licensed physicians and surgeons, osteopathic physicians, chiropractors, registered nurses, practical nurses, cosmetologists, chiropodists, physical therapists, and barbers who are exclusively engaged in the practice of their respective professions; 2) physicians of the United States Army, Navy, or Public Health Service when acting in the line of duty in this state; and 3) students performing massage therapy services when they render such services within the scope of an approved massage therapy school under the supervision of a licensed massage therapist.

Reflexology: In order to provide reflexology services, you MUST hold a license to practice massage therapy or a license in another discipline which authorizes such practice.

For Massage Therapy Establishment information, click here.