Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0260-02-.01 - DEFINITIONS
As used in these rules, the following terms and acronyms shall have the following meaning ascribed to them:
(1) Adjustment - A manual or mechanical
intervention that may be administered with a high or low velocity, short or
long lever, high or low amplitude, directed to specific structures of the frame
to improve joint function, neurological integrity, joint mobility or
alignment.
(2) Advertising -
Includes, but is not limited to business solicitation, with or without limiting
qualifications, in a card, sign, or device issued to a person; in a sign or
marking in or on any building; or in any newspaper, magazine, directory, or
other printed matter. Advertising also includes business solicitations
communicated by individual, radio, video, or television broadcasting or any
other means designed to secure public attention.
(3) Applicant - Any individual seeking
licensure by the board who has submitted an official application and paid the
application fee.
(4) Board - The
Tennessee Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
(5) Board Administrative Office - The office
of the Unit Director assigned to the board located at 665 Mainstream Drive,
Nashville, TN 37243.
(6) Board
Designee - Any person who has received a written delegation of authority from
the board to perform board functions subject to review and ratification by the
full board where provided by these rules.
(7) Closed Files - An administrative action
which renders an incomplete or denied file inactive.
(8) Department - Tennessee Department of
Health.
(9) Division - The Division
of Health Related Boards, Tennessee Department of Health, from which the board
receives administrative support.
(10) Documentation - Refers to and includes,
but is not limited to, notations made by the provider or his designated
assistant in the patient record, relevant reports from other providers,
electronically obtained and/or stored information and all diagnostic imaging,
etc.
(11) Excessive - That which
fails to be substantiated beyond the quantity of procedures customarily
performed or utilized by a prudent person similarly trained, skilled and
experienced in a specific diagnostic or treatment procedure or technique in
question.
(12) Fee - Money, gifts,
services, or anything of value offered or received as compensation in return
for rendering services; also, the required application fees.
(13) Good Moral Character - The quality of
being highly regarded in personal behavior and professional ethics.
(14) He/she Him/her - When "he" appears in
the text of these rules, the word represents both the feminine and masculine
genders.
(15) HRB - When the
acronym HRB appears in the text of these rules, the HRB represents Health
Related Boards.
(16) License -
Document issued to an applicant who successfully completes the licensure
process. The license takes the form of an "artistically designed" license as
well as other versions bearing an expiration date.
(17) Manipulation - A passive therapeutic
intervention that may be administered with a high or low velocity, short or
long lever, high or low amplitude, directed to specific structures of the frame
to improve joint function, neurological integrity, mobility or
alignment.
(18) National Board -
Means the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
(19) Person - Any individual, firm,
corporation, partnership, organization, or body politic.
(20) Physical Therapeutics - Physical agents,
rehabilitative and/or therapeutic procedures utilized in the restoration and
maintenance of health.
(21)
Registrant - Any person who has been lawfully issued a license.
(22) Subluxation - An abnormal condition
where one or the other of two adjacent articular surfaces has lost its
articular or neurological function, position, or alignment and is classified
less than a dislocation.
(23)
Substantiation - Any test, examination, recorded symptom or other observation
of the patient (or, in the case of a minor or otherwise legally incompetent
person, reported to the provider or his staff by the parent or legal guardian)
by the provider and determined by said provider to be useful in arriving at a
treating or management diagnosis and/ or the determination of what, how, when,
where and why to examine, treat, consult or refer a patient.
(24) Therapeutic Care - An approved,
adjustive, manipulative, nutritional, therapeutic or rehabilitative treatment
administered by or ordered by a chiropractic physician for the restoration and
maintenance of health.
(25) Use of
Title or Description - To hold oneself out to the public as having a particular
status by means of stating on signs, mailboxes, address plates, stationary,
announcements, business cards, or other means of professional
identification.
(26) Written
Evidence - Includes, but is not limited to, written verification from
supervisors or other professional colleagues familiar with the applicant's
work.
Notes
Authority: T.C.A. ยงยง 4-5-202, 4-5-204, 63-4-101, 63-4-102, 63-4-103, 63-4-105, 63-4-106, 63-4-107, 63-4-108, 63-4-109, 63-4-110, 63-4-112, 63-4-114, 63-4-122, and 63-4-123.
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