30 Miss. Code. R. 3101-1.3 - Definitions
The following terms shall have the meaning set forth below unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Board" shall mean the Mississippi State
Board of Physical Therapy.
2.
"License" shall mean the document of licensure issued by the Board.
3. "Act" shall mean the "Mississippi Physical
Therapy Practice Law" sections
73-23-31
et seq. of Mississippi Code of 1972, annotated.
4. "Examination" shall mean a national
examination approved by the Board for the licensure of a Physical Therapist or
a Physical Therapist Assistant.
5.
"Physical therapy" or "physiotherapy," are terms that are deemed identical and
interchangeable, means the art and science of a health specialty concerned with
the prevention of disability, and the physical rehabilitation for congenital or
acquired physical or mental disabilities, resulting from or secondary to injury
or disease.
6. "Practice of
physical therapy" shall mean the practice of the health specialty and encompass
physical therapy evaluation, treatment, planning, treatment administration,
instruction, and consultative services, including but not limited to:
a. Performing and interpreting tests and
measurements as an aid to physical therapy treatment, for the purpose of
correcting or alleviating any physical condition and to prevent the development
of any physical or mental disability within the scope of physical therapy; and
the performance of neuromuscular-skeletal tests and measurements as an aid in
diagnosis, evaluation, or determination of the existence of and the extent of
any body malfunction and to assess ongoing effects of intervention.
Electromyography (EMG)/nerve conduction studies may be performed by a licensed
physical therapist who is certified in electromyography by the American Board
of Physical Therapy Specialists (ABPTS).
b. Planning initial and subsequent treatment
programs, on the basis of test findings; and
c. Administering treatment by therapeutic
exercise, neuro-developmental procedures, therapeutic massage/manual therapy,
mechanical devices and therapeutic agents, which employ the physical, chemical
and other properties of air, water, heat, cold, electricity, sound and radiant
energy for the purpose of correcting or alleviating any physical condition or
preventing the development of any physical or mental disability. Telehealth is
an appropriate model of service delivery when it is provided in a manner
consistent with the standards of practice, ethical principles, rules and
regulations for Mississippi physical therapy practitioners. Intramuscular dry
needling manual therapy may be performed by a licensed physical therapist who
has met the criteria as described in these rules and regulations.
Notes
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