2014 Idaho Statutes
Title 54 - PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
Chapter 39 - ATHLETIC TRAINERS
Section 54-3902 - DEFINITIONS.
(1) "Athlete" means a person who participates in exercises, sports, or games requiring physical strength, agility, flexibility, range of motion, speed or stamina and which exercises, sports or games are of the type generally conducted in association with an educational institution or professional, amateur or recreational sports club or organization.
(2) "Athletic injury" means a physical injury, harm, hurt or common condition (such as heat disorders), incurred by an athlete, preventing or limiting participation in athletic activity, sports or recreation, which athletic trainers are educated to evaluate and treat or refer to the directing physician.
(3) "Athletic trainer" means a person who has met the qualifications for licensure as set forth in this chapter, is licensed under this chapter, and carries out the practice of athletic training under the direction of a designated Idaho licensed physician, registered with the board or a designated Idaho licensed chiropractic physician.
(4) "Athletic training" means the application by a licensed athletic trainer of principles and methods of:
(5) "Board" means the Idaho state board of medicine.
(6) "Board of athletic trainers" means the Idaho board of athletic trainers established in this chapter.
(7) "Directing physician" means a designated person duly licensed to practice medicine in Idaho, registered with the board or a designated Idaho licensed chiropractic physician, who is responsible for the athletic training services provided by the athletic trainer and oversees the practice of athletic training of the athletic trainer, as established by board rule. This chapter does not authorize the practice of medicine or any of its branches by a person not so licensed by the board.
History:
[54-3902, added 1989, ch. 179, sec. 1, p. 442; am. 2003, ch. 261, sec. 1, p. 686.]
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