Pennsylvania Code › Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS › Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS › Chapter 18 - STATE BOARD OF › Subchapter H - ATHLETIC TRAINERS › Section 18.502 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
						subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Approved athletic training education
						programs
-An athletic training education program that is accredited by
						a Board-approved Nationally recognized accrediting agency.
Athletic training services
-The
						management and provision of care of injuries to a physically active person,
						with the direction of a licensed physician.
(i) The term includes the rendering of
					 emergency care, development of injury prevention programs and providing
					 appropriate preventative and supportive devices for the physically active
					 person.
(ii) The term also includes
					 the assessment, management, treatment, rehabilitation and reconditioning of the
					 physically active person whose conditions are within the professional
					 preparation and education of a licensed athletic trainer.
(iii) The term also includes the use of
					 modalities such as: mechanical stimulation, heat, cold, light, air, water,
					 electricity, sound, massage and the use of therapeutic exercise, reconditioning
					 exercise and fitness programs.
(iv)
					 The term does not include surgery, invasive procedures or prescription of any
					 medication or controlled substance.
BOC
-The Board of Certification, Inc., a
						National credentialing organization for athletic trainers.
Direction
-Supervision over the actions
						of a licensed athletic trainer by means of referral by prescription to treat
						conditions for a physically active person from a licensed physician, dentist or
						podiatrist or written protocol approved by a supervising physician, except that
						the physical presence of the supervising physician, dentist or podiatrist is
						not required if the supervising physician, dentist or podiatrist is readily
						available for consultation by direct communication, radio, telephone,
						facsimile, telecommunications or by other electronic means.
Licensed athletic trainer
-A person who
						is licensed to perform athletic training services by the Board or the State
						Board of Osteopathic Medicine.
Physically active person
-An individual
						who participates in organized, individual or team sports, athletic games or
						recreational sports activities.
Referral
-An order from a licensed
						physician, dentist or podiatrist to a licensed athletic trainer for athletic
						training services. An order may be written or oral, except that an oral order
						must be reduced to writing within 72 hours of issuance.
Standing written prescription
-A portion
						of the written protocol or a separate document from a supervising physician,
						which includes an order to treat approved individuals in accordance with the
						protocol.
Written protocol
-A written agreement or
						other document developed in conjunction with one or more supervising
						physicians, which identifies and is signed by the supervising physician and the
						licensed athletic trainer, and describes the manner and frequency in which the
						licensed athletic trainer regularly communicates with the supervising physician
						and includes standard operating procedures, developed in agreement with the
						supervising physician and licensed athletic trainer, that the licensed athletic
						trainer follows when not directly supervised onsite by the supervising
						physician.