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2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions And Occupations
Article 285. Physical Therapists and Physical Therapist Assistants
Section 12-285-108. Limitations on authority.
Universal Citation: CO Rev Stat § 12-285-108 (2020)
(1) Nothing in this article 285 authorizes a physical therapist to perform any of the following acts:
Practice of medicine, surgery, or any other form of healing except as authorized bythe provisions of this article 285; or
Use of roentgen rays and radioactive materials for therapeutic purposes; the use ofelectricity for surgical purposes; or the diagnosis of disease.
(2) Nothing in this section prevents a physical therapist from making a physical therapy diagnosis within the physical therapist's scope of practice.
Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1509, § 1, effective October 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-41-105 as it existed prior to 2019.
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