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-the-counter 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.