Oklahoma § 59-2302 - Definitions

§ 59-2302. Definitions

As used in the Oklahoma Licensed Pedorthists Act:

1. "Accommodative device" means a device designed with a

primary goal of conforming to the individual's anatomy;

2. "Board" means the State Board of Medical Licensure and

Supervision;

3. "Certified Pedorthist (C. Ped.)” means a professional whose

competence in the practice of pedorthics is attested to by issuance

of a credential by the Board for Certification in Pedorthics;

4. "Committee" means the Advisory Committee on Pedorthics

created by Section 5 of this act;

5. "Department" means the State Department of Health;

6. "Licensed Pedorthist" means a person who is licensed as

required by the Oklahoma Licensed Pedorthists Act, who regularly

practices pedorthics, and who is therefore entitled to represent

himself or herself to the public by a title or description of

services that includes the term "pedorthist";

7. "Pedorthic devices" means therapeutic shoes, shoe

modifications made for therapeutic purposes, partial foot

prostheses, and custom made orthoses, inserts, inlays or variants

thereof for use from the ankle and below, but does not include

nontherapeutic accommodative inlays or nontherapeutic accommodative

footwear, regardless of method of manufacture, unmodified over-thecounter shoes, or prefabricated foot care products;

8. "Practice of pedorthics" means the practice, pursuant to a

written prescription from a physician when addressing a medical

condition, of evaluating, planning treatment, measuring, designing,

fabricating, assembling, fitting, adjusting, managing of the

patient, or servicing necessary to accomplish the application of a

pedorthic device for the prevention or amelioration of painful

and/or disabling conditions of the foot and ankle; and

9. "Therapeutic device" means a device that addresses a medical

condition.

Added by Laws 2001, c. 190, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2001.