Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health › Part 19 - Bureau of Professional Licensure › Subpart 60 - Professional Licensure › Chapter 1 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING LICENSURE OF ATHLETIC TRAINERS › Subchapter 1 - General › Rule 15-19-60-1.1.3 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
The following terms shall have the meaning set forth
						below, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Board" shall mean the Mississippi State Board of
						Health.
2. "Council" shall mean the Mississippi Council of
						Advisors in Athletic Training
3. "License" shall mean the document of licensure issued
						by the Board.
4. "Athletic Training" means the treatment of an athlete
						for risk management and athletic injury prevention, the clinical evaluation and
						assessment of an athlete for an injury or illness, or both, the immediate care
						and treatment for an injury or illness, or both, and the rehabilitation and
						reconditioning of an athlete's injury or illness, or both, as long as those
						activities are performed under the direction of a licensed physician, nurse
						practitioner or physician assistant. The practice of athletic training does not
						include the practice of physical therapy, the practice of medicine, the
						practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery, the practice of nursing or the
						practice of chiropractic.
5. "Athletic Trainer" means a person licensed by the
						Department of Health as an athletic trainer after meeting the requirements of
						these rules and regulations who, upon the advice, consent and oral or written
						prescriptions or referrals of a licensed physician, nurse practitioner or
						physician assistant, carries out the practice of athletic training, and in
						carrying out these functions the athletic trainer is authorized to use physical
						modalities, such as heat, light, sound, cold, electricity or mechanical devices
						related to prevention, recognition, evaluation, management, disposition,
						rehabilitation and treatment. An athletic trainer shall practice only in those
						areas in which the athletic trainer is competent due to training or experience
						that can be substantiated by records or other evidence found acceptable by the
						board in the exercise of the board's considered discretion.
6. "Practice and Performance of Athletic Training" means
						functioning in the nonclinical and clinical setting under the direction of a
						physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant, evaluating, treating,
						and providing appropriate immediate care and treatment to injuries incurred by
						an athlete during participation in or training for scholastic, recreational,
						professional, or sanctioned amateur athletic activities. Evaluation and
						treatment by an athletic trainer in the nonclinical setting to supportive
						staff, spectators, and other persons other than an athlete shall be limited to
						immediate care and treatment. An athletic trainer functioning in a clinical
						setting may evaluate and provide treatment for an athletic injury under the
						direction or referral of a licensed physician, nurse practitioner or physician
						assistant. An athletic trainer functioning in the nonclinical and clinical
						setting may use therapeutic exercise and modalities such as heat, cold, light,
						air, massage, water, sound and electricity for the treatment of musculoskeletal
						injuries and the use of passive (manual and mechanical) techniques for the
						purpose of treatment.
7. "Athlete" means an individual who participates in
						exercises, sports, or games requiring physical strength, agility, flexibility,
						range of motion, speed or stamina; or an individual with an athletic injury
						that a licensed physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant deems
						would benefit from athletic training services.
8. "Athletic Injury" means any injury sustained by a
						person as a result of the person's participation in sports, games or
						recreational activities requiring physical strength, flexibility, range of
						motion, speed or stamina, or comparable injury.
9. "Clinical Setting" means a hospital, department,
						outpatient facility, or clinic whose primary purpose is sports medicine,
						rehabilitation, or wellness.
10. "Nonclinical Setting" means a location where school,
						professional, recreational, or sanctioned amateur athletic activities are being
						held.
11. "Physician" means a physician licensed by the State
						Board of Medical Licensure.
12. "BOC, Inc.," means the Board of Certification,
						Incorporated, or its successor agency, the National Credentialing Agency of
						Athletic Trainers; formerly referred to as the National Athletic Trainers'
						Association Board of Certification, Inc.
13. "Act" means the Mississippi Athletic Trainers
						Licensure Act of 1991, Section
						73-55-1 et
						seq. of Mississippi Code of 1972, annotated.
14. "Department" shall mean the Mississippi State
						Department of Health.
Miss. Code Ann.
						§
												73-55-17.