{"id":1437,"date":"2013-04-15T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T11:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lauraallenmt.com\/blog\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:14:56","slug":"confusion-reign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauraallenmt.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/15\/confusion-reign\/","title":{"rendered":"Confusion Reigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d like to just steal Sandy Fritz’s blog this week, but instead I’ll post the link to it. She expressed many of the same things I have been feeling in “Beyond<\/strong> Frustration<\/strong>.<\/span>“<\/a> Confusion reigns. I get at least a half-dozen questions a day from massage therapists and providers asking me if I understand the latest move from the NCBTMB<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, or do I know what’s going on with this or that new requirement, or which exam should I take to get licensed, etc. Frankly, I’m confused and frustrated myself, in spite of being relatively well informed about what’s going on.<\/p>\n

I see confused massage therapists every day on my social networks referring to their certification from the NCBTMB as a “national license.” There is no such thing as a national license. It would be a lot easier for us all if such a thing existed, but it doesn’t. A few years ago, I noticed that a teacher I had hired to come to my facility to teach a CE class had been ordered by our state board to cease and desist practicing massage without a license. When I called her to see what was going on, she said “But I have a national license!” No, you don’t. None of us do.<\/p>\n

My own confusion was compounded again this weekend when I received my certificate proclaiming that I am now Board Certified–the new credential from the NCBTMB. Personally, I think calling it that is a huge blunder on their part. It really doesn’t make any differentiation from the old paradigm of “National Certification” and people are confused about it. The certificate is bigger and a little nicer-looking, but my new certificate says that I have been certified since 2000. Well, yes I have, but this is supposedly a new and different credential, and I didn’t get it until 2013. There is something that doesn’t seem right about that.<\/p>\n

I could go on, but I won’t. The tragedy that occurred at the Boston Marathon yesterday has me feeling sad and angry and confused and just out of sorts. It seems ridiculous to focus on whatever complaints I have about the way things are going in the massage world when people are dead and wounded and grieving for their loved ones so I’m going to save the rest of my rants for another day.<\/p>\n

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I’d like to just steal Sandy Fritz’s blog this week, but instead I’ll post the link to it. She expressed many of the same things I have been feeling in “Beyond Frustration.“ Confusion reigns. I get at least a half-dozen questions a day from massage therapists and providers asking me if I understand the latest … <\/p>\n

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