Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 321 > Part XXXV - Case Management Services for Medically Fragile Children

• Case management services: means services that assist medically fragile children under the medicaid state plan in gaining access to needed medical, social, educational, and other services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-431
• Medically fragile children: means children under the age of twenty-one with complex medical conditions that may or may not require technological interventions, including but not limited to ventilator care, tracheostomy care, catheterizations, parenteral nutrition, complex enteral feeding, and complex wound care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-431
• Practice of physical therapy: includes , but is not limited to, the use of the following:

  (1) Physical agents, such as heat, cold, water, air, sound, compression, light, electricity, and electromagnetic radiation;

  (2) Exercise with or without devices, joint mobilization, mechanical stimulation; biofeedback; postural drainage; traction; positioning, massage, splinting, training in locomotion, and other functional activities with or without assisting devices; and correction of posture, body mechanics, and gait;

  (3) Tests and measurements of: muscle strength, force, endurance, and tone; joint motion, mobility, and stability; reflexes and automatic reaction; movement skill and accuracy; sensation and perception; peripheral nerve integrity; locomotor skill, stability, and endurance; activities of daily living; cardiac, pulmonary, and vascular functions; the fit, function, and comfort of prosthetic, orthotic, and other assisting devices; posture and body mechanics; limb strength, circumference, and volume; thoracic excursion and breathing patterns; vital signs; nature and locus of pain and conditions under which pain varies; photosensitivity; and the home and work physical environments. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 461J-1