Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 319B - Prosthetists, Orthotists, and Pedorthists

• Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Board: means the Kentucky Board of Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Pedorthics. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• CAAHEP: means the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education
  Programs. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Facility: means the business location where orthotic, prosthetic, or pedorthic care is provided. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Licensed pedorthist: means a person who is licensed under this chapter to practice pedorthics and who represents the person to the public by the title or description of services that includes the term "pedorthic" "pedorthist" or a similar title or description of services. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• NCOPE: means the National Commission on Orthotic and Prosthetic Education. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Orthotics: means the science and practice of evaluating, measuring, designing, fabricating, assembling, fitting, adjusting, or servicing an orthosis, under an order from a licensed health care practitioner or provider authorized by law to issue such an order, for the correction or alleviation of neuromuscular or musculoskeletal dysfunction, disease, injury, or deformity. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Orthotist: means a person who is specifically trained and educated to provide or manage the provision of a custom-designed, fabricated, modified, and fitted external orthosis to an orthotic patient, based on a clinical assessment and a prescription from a health care practitioner or provider authorized by law to write such prescriptions, to restore physiological function or cosmesis. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Pedorthic device: means therapeutic footwear, foot orthoses, or orthotics for use at
  the ankle or below, below the ankle partial foot prostheses, and modified footwear made for therapeutic purposes, as prescribed by a licensed health care practitioner or provider authorized by law to issue such a prescription. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Pedorthic education program: means a course of instruction accredited by NCOPE, consisting of:
  (a) A basic curriculum of instruction in foot-related pathology of diseases, anatomy, and biomechanics. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Pedorthics: means the science and practice of evaluating, measuring, designing, fabricating, assembling, fitting, adjusting, or servicing a pedorthic device, under an order from a licensed health care practitioner or provider authorized by law to issue such an order for the correction or alleviation of neuromuscular or musculoskeletal dysfunction, disease, injury, or deformity. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Pedorthist: means a person who measures, designs, fabricates, fits, or services pedorthic devices and assists in the formulation of the order of pedorthic devices, as ordered by a licensed health care practitioner or provider authorized by law to issue such an order for the support or correction of disabilities caused by neuromuscular or musculoskeletal dysfunction, disease, injury, or deformity. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Person: means a natural person. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Prosthesis: means a custom designed, fabricated, fitted, or modified device to replace an absent external limb, for the purpose of restoring physiological function or cosmesis. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Prosthetics: means the science and practice of evaluating, measuring, designing, fabricating, assembling, fitting, adjusting, or servicing a prosthesis, under an order from a licensed health care practitioner or provider authorized by law to issue such an order. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Prosthetist: means a person who is specifically trained and educated to provide or manage the provision of a custom designed, fabricated, modified, and fitted external
  limb prosthesis to a prosthetic patient, based on a clinical assessment and a prescription from a health care practitioner or provider authorized to write such prescriptions, to restore physiological function or cosmesis. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Resident: means a person who has completed a CAAHEP accredited education program in orthotics, prosthetics, or both and is obtaining his or her clinical training in a residency accredited by NCOPE. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Supervision: means the act of critical observing and directing the work or tasks of another who may lack full knowledge of the concept at hand. See Kentucky Statutes 319B.010
• Treatment: when used in a criminal justice context, means targeted interventions
  that focus on criminal risk factors in order to reduce the likelihood of criminal behavior. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010