Nothing in this chapter or in the administrative regulations promulgated by the board pursuant to this chapter shall be interpreted to limit or restrict:
(1) A licensed health care practitioner or provider from engaging in the full scope of practice authorized by the license for that person‘s profession, training, or services;

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 319B.090

  • Board: means the Kentucky Board of Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Pedorthics. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

(2) A person licensed as a physical therapist under KRS Chapter 327 or as an occupational therapist under KRS Chapter 319A from engaging in that person’s profession pursuant to his or her education and training;
(3) A person licensed as an athletic trainer under KRS Chapter 311 from engaging in that person’s profession pursuant to his or her education and training;
(4) A person licensed as a physician under KRS Chapter 311 from engaging in that person’s profession pursuant to his or her education and training;
(5) A person licensed as a chiropractor under KRS Chapter 312 from engaging in that person’s profession pursuant to his or her education and training;
(6) A person licensed as a pharmacist under KRS Chapter 315 from engaging in that person’s profession pursuant to his or her education and training;
(7) A person certified as a therapeutic shoe fitter by a nationally recognized board from engaging in that person’s profession pursuant to his or her education and training and within that person’s scope of practice as defined by the certifying board;
(8) Individuals acting under the supervision and control of a licensed pharmacist or pharmacy from measuring, fitting, or adjusting any noncustom fabricated and fitted device including but not limited to over-the-counter devices, so long as such individual does not create a cast, mold, or scan of a part of the human body for the purpose of constructing a medical device to treat a patient’s medical condition, and so long as such individual meets one (1) of the following criteria for the device:
(a) Documented training from a manufacturer or training from a licensed or certified orthotist, prosthetist, or pedorthist;
(b) Certification or registration as a fitter of orthotic, prosthetic, or pedorthic devices from a nationally recognized board or association such as the Board of Certification/Accreditation, International (BOC), the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), or the American Board for Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics and Pedorthics, Inc. (ABC); or
(c) Direct supervision by a trained and experienced, or certified, or registered, fitter of orthotic, prosthetic, or pedorthic devices; or
(9) Individuals acting under the supervision and control of a licensed pharmacist or pharmacy from measuring, fitting, or adjusting any noncustom fabricated and fitted pedorthic devices including but not limited to diabetic shoes, so long as the individual meets the criteria of either subsection (8)(a) or (8)(b) of this section, and so long as the individual does not create a cast, mold, or scan of a part of the human body for the purpose of constructing a medical device to treat a patient’s medical problem.
Effective: June 25, 2013
History: Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 30, sec. 9, effective June 25, 2013. — Created
2010 Ky. Acts ch. 109, sec. 10, effective July 15, 2010.

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