A B.C. therapeutic massage therapist who gave a feminine affected person a “entire chest” therapeutic massage with out her consent has been suspended for every week and had limits positioned on which components of girls’s our bodies he can contact.
Hyeokcheon (HC) Kwon entered into an endeavor and consent settlement with the Faculty of Therapeutic massage Therapists of BC final month by which he admitted to skilled misconduct.
In line with the faculty’s inquiry committee, a feminine affected person complained about Kwon in October of 2022. On the appointment, Kwon didn’t focus on the “entire chest therapeutic massage” with the affected person and didn’t embrace it in his therapy plan, in response to the CMTBC.
“He massaged the affected person’s breast tissue underneath the draping with out asking whether or not the Affected person consented to skin-on-skin therapeutic massage underneath the draping,” the settlement says.
“Whereas the affected person was mendacity face up on the therapeutic massage desk, the draping slipped solely off the Affected person’s physique for roughly 5 to 10 seconds, exposing the affected person’s breasts to his view. He continued massaging the affected person’s chest whereas her breasts have been uncovered,” it continues.
After this “slip,” Kwon didn’t apologize or test in with the affected person and didn’t provide to halt the session, in response to the faculty.
Kwon additionally admitted his record-keeping in relation to this appointment was insufficient as a result of he didn’t get hold of written consent or doc verbal consent and didn’t document the “draping slip,” the CMTBC says.
The disciplinary measures Kwon consented to have been a reprimand, a one-week suspension, and “intensive remedial schooling,” the settlement says. Till he has accomplished this schooling he won’t be allowed to the touch ladies’s our bodies between their collarbones and their ninth ribs.
Kwon can be required by the faculty to put up a notification of this restrict on his observe “in a distinguished place in any therapy room the place he gives therapeutic massage remedy therapy.”
