Kelle Walsh examines the dilemma of massage regulation in "The Regulatory Net, Part One: The Catch-All Effect of Massage Laws." Walsh sheds light on the "efforts," that are "already underway to get bodywork techniques such as Rolfing® bodywork, Trager® work, energy healing and others, disentangled from the net of massage laws." In the last decade, proponents of massage regulation have hoped that massage laws would "legitimize massage and separate it from an association with prostitution." They have also considered licensure important for those practitioners desiring insurance reimbursement and physician referrals. However, "massage laws often include sweeping definitions of massage that...may catch any number of bodywork techniques in the regulatory net." The article examines the plea for the fair treatment of non-massage bodywork practitioners who are required, in many states, to get massage training "at a considerable cost and commitment of time." Sidebars outline modalities that are caught in the regulatory net and give examples of laws in several states.   Read Part Two