Chapter Definitions

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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

  1. “Certification” means completion of a two hundred (200) hour reflexology only course offered by an institution approved by the Tennessee higher education commission or its equivalent in other states;
  2. “Client” means any person who engages the services of a reflexology practitioner;
  3. “Commissioner” means the commissioner of health or the commissioner's designee;
  4. “Department” means the department of health;
  5. “Division” means the division of health-related boards in the department of health;
  6. “Reflexology” means the application of specific pressures to reflex points in the hands and feet only;
  7. “Reflexology practitioner” or “reflexologist” means any person who engages in the practice of reflexology for compensation and who has completed a study of the principles of reflexology, anatomy and physiology generally included in a regular course of study of reflexology; and
  8. “Registration” means satisfying the requirements for registration by the department of health.


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