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An excerpt from the Board´s Guide to Policy and Practice Questions document…
ANY TRAINED PERSON may perform the following (including CCAs):
- Clarify initial patient intake history, which includes recording height, weight, blood pressure, temperature, and pulse rate.
- Record hand dynamometer readings.
- Demonstrate, teach, check and review with patients the doctor’s prescribed patient exercises
- Facilitate provision of vitamins and/or supplements to patients as ordered by the doctor.
- Relay doctor’s instructions to the patient on recommendations of nutritional needs.
- Facilitate provision of cervical pillow or support as recommended by the doctor.
- Make follow-up phone calls to patients on their progress as instructed by the doctor.
- Schedule return office visits for patients as instructed by the doctor.
- Schedule referrals as instructed by the doctor.
- Check patient’s body fat percentage.
- Perform postural screenings under the on-site supervision of a chiropractor, but only a Chiropractor may interpret the information.
- This list is not intended to be all-inclusive.
3218 Pringle Rd SE Ste 150 | Salem, OR 97302-6311
Phone: (503) 378-5816 | FAX: (503) 362-1260
Email: oregon.obce@state.or.us
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