Rules & Regulations of the State of Tennessee
Title 0260 - Chiropractic Examiners
Chapter 0260-02 - General Rules Governing Chiropractic Examiners
Section 0260-02-.01 - DEFINITIONS

(1) Adjustment - A manual or mechanical intervention that may be administered with a high or low velocity, short or long lever, high or low amplitude, directed to specific structures of the frame to improve joint function, neurological integrity, joint mobility or alignment.

(2) Advertising - Includes, but is not limited to business solicitation, with or without limiting qualifications, in a card, sign, or device issued to a person; in a sign or marking in or on any building; or in any newspaper, magazine, directory, or other printed matter. Advertising also includes business solicitations communicated by individual, radio, video, or television broadcasting or any other means designed to secure public attention.

(3) Applicant - Any individual seeking licensure by the board who has submitted an official application and paid the application fee.

(4) Board - The Tennessee Board of Chiropractic Examiners.

(5) Board Administrative Office - The office of the Unit Director assigned to the board located at 665 Mainstream Drive, Nashville, TN 37243.

(6) Board Designee - Any person who has received a written delegation of authority from the board to perform board functions subject to review and ratification by the full board where provided by these rules.

(7) Closed Files - An administrative action which renders an incomplete or denied file inactive.

(8) Department - Tennessee Department of Health.

(9) Division - The Division of Health Related Boards, Tennessee Department of Health, from which the board receives administrative support.

(10) Documentation - Refers to and includes, but is not limited to, notations made by the provider or his designated assistant in the patient record, relevant reports from other providers, electronically obtained and/or stored information and all diagnostic imaging, etc.

(11) Excessive - That which fails to be substantiated beyond the quantity of procedures customarily performed or utilized by a prudent person similarly trained, skilled and experienced in a specific diagnostic or treatment procedure or technique in question.

(12) Fee - Money, gifts, services, or anything of value offered or received as compensation in return for rendering services; also, the required application fees.

(13) Good Moral Character - The quality of being highly regarded in personal behavior and professional ethics.

(14) He/she Him/her - When "he" appears in the text of these rules, the word represents both the feminine and masculine genders.

(15) HRB - When the acronym HRB appears in the text of these rules, the HRB represents Health Related Boards.

(16) License - Document issued to an applicant who successfully completes the licensure process. The license takes the form of an "artistically designed" license as well as other versions bearing an expiration date.

(17) Manipulation - A passive therapeutic intervention that may be administered with a high or low velocity, short or long lever, high or low amplitude, directed to specific structures of the frame to improve joint function, neurological integrity, mobility or alignment.

(18) National Board - Means the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners.

(19) Person - Any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, organization, or body politic.

(20) Physical Therapeutics - Physical agents, rehabilitative and/or therapeutic procedures utilized in the restoration and maintenance of health.

(21) Registrant - Any person who has been lawfully issued a license.

(22) Subluxation - An abnormal condition where one or the other of two adjacent articular surfaces has lost its articular or neurological function, position, or alignment and is classified less than a dislocation.

(23) Substantiation - Any test, examination, recorded symptom or other observation of the patient (or, in the case of a minor or otherwise legally incompetent person, reported to the provider or his staff by the parent or legal guardian) by the provider and determined by said provider to be useful in arriving at a treating or management diagnosis and/ or the determination of what, how, when, where and why to examine, treat, consult or refer a patient.

(24) Therapeutic Care - An approved, adjustive, manipulative, nutritional, therapeutic or rehabilitative treatment administered by or ordered by a chiropractic physician for the restoration and maintenance of health.

(25) Use of Title or Description - To hold oneself out to the public as having a particular status by means of stating on signs, mailboxes, address plates, stationary, announcements, business cards, or other means of professional identification.

(26) Written Evidence - Includes, but is not limited to, written verification from supervisors or other professional colleagues familiar with the applicant's work.