{"id":4617,"date":"2017-04-27T08:59:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/protection-public\/reglementation\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:53:15","slug":"reglementation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/protecting-the-public\/reglementation\/","title":{"rendered":"Absence of reglementation in massage therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Close to 20,000 people \u2013 belonging to 10 or so professional associations spread out across Quebec \u2013 practice massage therapy without the proper training and with no accountability. To date, no training program has been recognized by the Minist\u00e8re de l\u2019\u00e9ducation, de l\u2019enseignement sup\u00e9rieur et de la recherche du Qu\u00e9bec. In other words, because the profession is still not regulated by government authorities, anyone can claim to be a massage therapist.<\/p>\n<p>This is where the role of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise des massoth\u00e9rapeutes agr\u00e9\u00e9s (FQM) \u2013 founded in 1979 based on the same principles and the same rigorous spirit as a professional order \u2013 take on its full significance: Our organization has worked to secure accreditation for massage therapy training via its network of partner schools, and it certifies the competencies and rigorously supervises its 5,700 or so members in order to ensure that the public receives safe and high quality care.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, watch the video presentation\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rOV_cg_0Y10\">La massoth\u00e9rapie au Qu\u00e9bec<\/a> (only in french):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La massoth\u00e9rapie au Qu\u00e9bec : Mot de la Directrice de la FQM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rOV_cg_0Y10?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to 20,000 people \u2013 belonging to 10 or so professional associations spread out across Quebec \u2013 practice massage therapy without the proper training and with no accountability. To date, no training program has been recognized by the Minist\u00e8re de l\u2019\u00e9ducation, de l\u2019enseignement sup\u00e9rieur et de la recherche du Qu\u00e9bec. In other words, because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":4615,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4617","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81382,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4617\/revisions\/81382"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}