A B.C. therapeutic massage therapist who gave a feminine affected person a “complete chest” therapeutic massage with out her consent has been suspended for per week and had limits positioned on which components of girls’s our bodies he can contact.
Hyeokcheon (HC) Kwon entered into an enterprise and consent settlement with the School of Therapeutic massage Therapists of BC final month by which he admitted to skilled misconduct.
In response to the school’s inquiry committee, a feminine affected person complained about Kwon in October of 2022. On the appointment, Kwon didn’t focus on the “complete chest therapeutic massage” with the affected person and didn’t embody it in his remedy plan, in line with 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 about 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 examine in with the affected person and didn’t supply to halt the session, in line with the school.
Kwon additionally admitted his record-keeping in relation to this appointment was insufficient as a result of he didn’t acquire written consent or doc verbal consent and didn’t file the “draping slip,” the CMTBC says.
The disciplinary measures Kwon consented to have been a reprimand, a one-week suspension, and “in depth remedial schooling,” the settlement says. Till he has accomplished this schooling he is not going to be allowed to the touch girls’s our bodies between their collarbones and their ninth ribs.
Kwon can also be required by the school to submit a notification of this restrict on his observe “in a distinguished place in any remedy room the place he supplies therapeutic massage remedy remedy.”
