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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="3-101" title_number="3" title_name="Chiropractors" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Board” means the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Chiropractor” means an individual who practices chiropractic.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Direct supervision” means supervision provided by a supervising chiropractor who is personally present or immediately available where the procedures are performed to give aid, direction, and instruction when certain procedures or activities are performed.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“License” means, unless the context requires otherwise, a license granted by the Board:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To practice chiropractic; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To practice chiropractic with the right to practice physical therapy.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Licensed chiropractor” means, unless the context requires otherwise, a chiropractor who is licensed by the Board to practice chiropractic or to practice chiropractic with the right to practice physical therapy.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Practice chiropractic” means to use a drugless system of health care based on the principle that interference with the transmission of nerve impulses may cause disease.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Practice chiropractic” includes the diagnosing and locating of misaligned or displaced vertebrae and, through the manual manipulation and adjustment of the spine and other skeletal structures, treating disorders of the human body.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Except as otherwise provided in this title, “practice chiropractic” does not include the use of drugs or surgery, or the practice of osteopathy, obstetrics, or any other branch of medicine.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The definition of “practice chiropractic” does not prohibit a chiropractor from selecting diet and hygiene measures for an individual.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Practice physical therapy” has the meaning stated in § 13–101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Preceptorship” means an organized system of clinical experience that allows a student enrolled in a chiropractic program of study to be paired with a clinical preceptor for the purpose of attaining specific learning objectives.</text>
  </level>
</section>
