Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 63 > Chapter 13 > Part 1 - General Provisions

• AOTA: means the American Occupational Therapy Association. See Tennessee Code 63-13-103
• Board: means :
  (A) As used in part 2 of this chapter, the board of occupational therapy. See Tennessee Code 63-13-103
• Division: means the division of health related boards of the department of health. See Tennessee Code 63-13-103
• Dry needling: means a skilled intervention that uses a thin filiform needle to penetrate the skin and stimulate underlying neural, muscular, and connective tissues for the management of neuromusculoskeletal conditions, pain, and movement impairments. See Tennessee Code 63-13-103
• Occupational therapist: means a person licensed to engage in occupational therapy practice under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 63-13-103
• Occupational therapy assistant: means a person licensed to assist in occupational therapy practice under the supervision of an occupational therapist. See Tennessee Code 63-13-103
• Occupational therapy practice: includes , but is not limited to:
  (i) Screening, evaluation, assessment, planning, implementation, or discharge planning in order to determine an occupational therapy treatment diagnosis, prognosis, plan of therapeutic intervention, or discharge plan, or to assess the ongoing effect of intervention. See Tennessee Code 63-13-103
• Occupations: includes everything that people do to occupy their time, including caring for their needs, enjoying life and contributing to the social and economic fabric of their communities. See Tennessee Code 63-13-103
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Physical therapist assistant: means a person who meets the requirements of this chapter for licensure as a physical therapist assistant and who performs physical therapy procedures and related tasks that have been selected and delegated only by the supervising physical therapist. See Tennessee Code 63-13-103
• Physical therapy: means the care and services provided by or under the direction and supervision of a physical therapist who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 63-13-103
• Practice of physical therapy: means , whether by in-person encounter or via telehealth, telemedicine, or provider-based telemedicine, as authorized by §. See Tennessee Code 63-13-103
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Upper limb: means the hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder girdle. See Tennessee Code 63-13-103
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105