First, opening a massage shop is not illegal medical practice, and massage does not belong to medical practice. Illegal medical practice refers to the illegal medical practice of people who have not obtained the qualification of medical practitioners. If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or only be fined. Two. Legal basis: 1. Criminal Law Crime of Illegal Medical Practice Article 336 Whoever fails to obtain the qualification for illegal medical practice, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or only be fined; Those who seriously damage the health of patients shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and fined; Whoever causes death shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years and fined. 2. Article 1 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in the Trial of Criminal Cases of Illegal Medical Practice shall be deemed as "a person who has not obtained the qualification of illegal medical practice" as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 336 of the Criminal Law: (1) a person who has not obtained the qualification of medical practice or engaged in medical activities by illegal means; (two) engaged in medical activities during the period when the doctor's practice certificate was revoked according to law; (three) engaged in rural medical activities without obtaining the practice certificate of rural doctors; (four) the family midwife to implement medical behavior other than home delivery. Article 6 The medical activities and behaviors mentioned in this Interpretation shall be identified with reference to the "diagnosis and treatment activities" and "medical beauty" in the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Regulations on the Administration of Medical Institutions. 3. Category of medical institutions: 3. The meaning of the following terms in the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Regulations on the Administration of Medical Institutions and Article 88 of these Detailed Rules: Diagnosis and treatment activities refer to the activities of judging and eliminating diseases, relieving illness, alleviating pain, improving function, prolonging life and helping patients recover from health through various examinations, using drugs, instruments and operations. Medical beauty: refers to the use of drugs, surgery, physics and other invasive or invasive means of beauty.