No person shall profess to be a licensee, or practice or assume the duties incident to a license issued under this chapter, or use the title “orthotist,” “prosthetist,” “pedorthist,” “orthotic fitter,” or any words or letters which designate or tend to designate to the public that the person is an orthotist, prosthetist, pedorthist, or orthotic fitter, unless he or she holds a valid, current license from the board.
Effective: July 15, 2010

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 319B.110

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

History: Created 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 109, sec. 12, effective July 15, 2010.

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