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1. As used in this chapter:
a. “Board” means the board of physical and occupational therapy created under chapter
147.
b. “Physical therapy” means the branch of science that deals with the evaluation and
treatment of human capabilities and impairments. Physical therapy uses the effective
properties of physical agents including but not limited to mechanical devices, heat, cold, air,
light, water, electricity, and sound, and therapeutic exercises, and rehabilitative procedures
to prevent, correct, minimize, or alleviate a physical impairment.
(1)Physical therapy includes the interpretation of performances, tests, and
measurements, the establishment and modification of physical therapy programs, treatment
planning, consultative services, instructions to the patients, and the administration a
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1. As used in this chapter:
a. “Board” means the board of physical and occupational therapy created under chapter
147.
b. “Physical therapy” means the branch of science that deals with the evaluation and
treatment of human capabilities and impairments. Physical therapy uses the effective
properties of physical agents including but not limited to mechanical devices, heat, cold, air,
light, water, electricity, and sound, and therapeutic exercises, and rehabilitative procedures
to prevent, correct, minimize, or alleviate a physical impairment.
(1) Physical therapy includes the interpretation of performances, tests, and
measurements, the establishment and modification of physical therapy programs, treatment
planning, consultative services, instructions to the patients, and the administration and
supervision attendant to physical therapy facilities.
(2) Physical therapy permits the referral of a patient by a physical therapist for diagnostic
imaging, including plain radiographs and magnetic resonance imaging, provided the
diagnostic imaging is performed and the results are interpreted by an appropriately licensed
and qualified health care professional. The physical therapist who ordered the diagnostic
imaging shall report the results of the diagnostic imaging to the patient’s designated
primary care provider within seven days following receipt of the results to ensure patient
coordination of care, unless the patient does not have a designated primary care provider
or the health care professional who performed and interpreted the diagnostic imaging
previously provided the results to the primary care provider.
2. Physical therapy evaluation and treatment may be rendered by a physical therapist
with or without a referral from a physician, podiatric physician, dentist, or chiropractor,
except that a hospital may require that physical therapy evaluation and treatment provided
in the hospital shall be done only upon prior review by and authorization of a member of the
hospital’s medical staff.