New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING › Chapter 4 - CHIROPRACTIC PRACTITIONERS › Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 16.4.1.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
"Advertising"
means any communication whatsoever, disseminated by
				any means whatsoever, to or before the public or any portion thereof, with the
				intent of furthering the purpose, either directly or indirectly, of selling
				professional services, or offering to perform professional services, or
				inducing members of the public to enter into any obligation relating to such
				professional services.
B.
"Application for licensure"
applicants applying for licensure in
				New Mexico whether by examination or without examination must submit an
				application for licensure that will be provided by the board and available of
				the board site.
C.
"Application for licensure without examination"
applicants
				applying for licensure without examination are those who have held a
				chiropractic license in another jurisdiction.
D.
"Background findings"
the
				board may deny, stipulate, or otherwise limit a license if it is determined the
				applicant holds or has held a license in another jurisdiction that is not in
				good standing, if proceedings are pending against the applicant in another
				jurisdiction, or information is received indicating the applicant is a danger
				to patients or is guilty of violating any of the provisions of the Chiropractic
				Physicians Practice Act, the Uniform Licensing Act, Impaired Health Care
				Providers Act. The results of the background check must either indicate no
				negative findings, or if there are negative findings, those findings will be
				considered by the board. The board shall formally accept the approval of the
				application at the next scheduled meeting.
E.
"Board"
means the New Mexico
				chiropractic board.
F.
"Chiropractic"
means the science, art and philosophy of things
				natural, the science of locating and removing interference with the
				transmissions or expression of nerve forces in the human body by the correction
				of misalignments or subluxations of the articulations and adjacent structures,
				more especially those of the vertebral column and pelvis, for the purpose of
				restoring and maintaining health for treatment of human disease primarily by,
				but not limited to, adjustment and manipulation of the human structure. It
				shall include, but not be limited to, the prescription and administration of
				all natural agents in all forms to assist in the healing act, such as food,
				water, heat, cold, electricity, mechanical appliances, herbs, nutritional
				supplements, homeopathic remedies and any necessary diagnostic procedure,
				excluding invasive procedures, except as provided by the board by rule and
				regulation. It shall exclude operative surgery and prescription or use of
				controlled or dangerous drugs, except as permitted by statute and corresponding
				regulation.
G.
"Chiropractic
				adjustment"
means the application of a precisely controlled force
				applied by hand or by mechanical devise to a specific focal point on the
				anatomy for the purpose of creating a desired angular movement in the skeletal
				joint structures in order to eliminate or decrease interference with neural
				transmission or to correct or attempt to correct a vertebral subluxation using,
				as appropriate, short lever, high velocity, low amplitude line of correction
				force to achieve the desired angular movement or neuromuscular reflex
				response.
H.
"Chiropractic
				assistant"
means a person who practices under the on-premises
				supervision of a licensed chiropractic physician.
I.
"Chiropractic physician"
includes doctor of chiropractic, chiropractor and chiropractic physician and
				means a person who practices chiropractic as defined in the Chiropractic
				Physician Practice Act.
J.
"Complaint/review committee"
an ad hoc committee established by
				the board to review all complaints and applicants with background findings.
				Complaint/review committee shall consist of one professional board member, one
				chiropractor with an active license for five years in New Mexico in good
				standing, the board's executive director, board's compliance liaison, and
				board's investigator. Recommendations regarding the complaints and licensure of
				the applicants will be given to the board at its next scheduled
				meeting.
K.
"Electronic
				signatures"
will be acceptable for applications submitted pursuant to
				Sections 14-16-1 through
				14-16-19 NMSA
				1978.
L.
"Impairment
				fee"
means: that in addition to the license renewal fee, each
				chiropractor subject to renewal will be assessed an impairment fee to be set
				aside for the purpose of the impaired practitioners program.
M.
"Licensure by examination"
applicants applying for licensure by examination in New Mexico are those
				candidates for licensure that have never held a chiropractic license in any
				other jurisdiction.
N.
"Mobilization"
means a non-thrusting manual therapy involving
				movement of a joint within its physiological range of motion. Mobilization is a
				passive movement within the physiological joint space administered by a
				clinician for the purpose of increasing normalizing overall joint range of
				motion.
O.
"NBCE"
national board of chiropractic examiners.
P.
"PACE"
providers of approved
				continuing education.
Q.
"Pre-paid treatment plans"
include any agreement between a
				licensee and patient or prospective patient that includes payment or collection
				of money for treatment planned, anticipated or held in reserve to occur or
				potentially occur more than 14 days following the payment or collection of
				those monies.
R.
"Spinal
				manipulation or articular manipulation"
means the application of a
				direct thrust or leverage to move a joint of the spine or extremity
				articulation to the paraphysiologic end range movement but without exceeding
				the limits of anatomical integrity.
S.
"Vertebral subluxation"
means
				a complex of functional, structural or pathological articular changes, or
				combination thereof, that compromise articular junction, neural integrity and
				may adversely influence organ system function or general health and
				well-being.