PDGA CERTIFIED RULES EXAM 4 COMPLETE
STUDY GUIDE AND DISC GOLF RULES AND
REGULATIONS REVIEW 2026
◉ What is legislative purpose?
Answer: To ensure that every PT practitioner is practicing in the
state meets minimum requirements for safe practice.
◉ What is legislative intent?
Answer: It is the intent that PT practitioners who fall below
minimum competency or who otherwise present a danger to the
public be prohibited from practicing in this state.
◉ What does board mean ?
Answer: Means board of PT practice
◉ What does department mean?
Answer: Department of health
◉ What does license mean ?
,Answer: The document of authorization granted by the board and
issued by the department for s person to engage in the practice of
PT.
◉ What does endorsement mean ?
Answer: Licensure granted by the board pursuant to the provisions
of chapter 486
◉ What does Physical therapist mean?
Answer: A person who is licensed and who practices PT in
accordance with the provisions of this chapter
◉ What does PTA mean ?
Answer: A person who is licensed in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter to preform patient related activities including use of
physical agents, whose license is in good standing and whose
activities are preformed under the direction of a PT as set forth in
rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.
◉ Patient related activities preformed by a PTA for a board certified
orthopedic physician or physiatrist licensed pursuant to chapter 458
or 459 or a practitioner licensed under chapter 460 shall be under
what type of supervision?
Answer: General supervision of a PT, but shall not require onsite
supervision by a PT.
,◉ Patient related activities preformed for all other health care
practitioners licensed under chapter 458/459 and those patient
related activities preformed for practitioners licensed under chapter
461/466 shall be preformed under what supervision?
Answer: Onsite supervision of a PT
◉ What does physical therapy practitioner mean?
Answer: A PT or PTA who is licensed and who practices PT in
accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
◉ What does physical therapy or physiotherapy mean ?
Answer: Each of these terms are deemed identical and
interchangeable with each other , means a health care profession.
◉ What is direct supervision ?
Answer: Means supervision by a PT who is licensed pursuant to this
chapter. Except in a case of emergency, direct supervision requires
the physical presence of the licensed PT for consultation and
direction of the actions of the PT or PTA who is practicing under a
temp license or who is a candidate for licensure by examination.
◉ What is a physical therapy assessment ?
, Answer: Means observational, verbal, or manual determinations of
the function of the musculoskeletal or neuromuscular system
relative to PT.
◉ What does a physical therapy assessment include ?
Answer: Including but not limited to range of motion of a joint,
motor power, postural attitudes, bio mechanical function,
locomotion, Or functional abilities, for the purpose of making
recommendations for treatment.
◉ What does practice of physical therapy mean?
Answer: Means the performance of physical therapy assessments
and the treatment of any disability, injury, disease or other health
condition of a human being, or the prevention of such disability,
injury, disease, or other condition of health, and rehabilitation as
related thereto by the use of physical, chemical, and other properties
of air, electricity, exercise, massage, the performance of acupuncture
only upon compliance with the criteria set forth by the board of
medicine.
◉ The practice of physical therapy also includes what when no
penetration of the skin occurs?
Answer: The use of radiant energy, including ultraviolet, visible and
infrared rays, ultrasound, water, the use of apparatus and equipment
in the application of the forgoing or related thereto. The
performance of tests of neuromuscular functions as an aid to the
STUDY GUIDE AND DISC GOLF RULES AND
REGULATIONS REVIEW 2026
◉ What is legislative purpose?
Answer: To ensure that every PT practitioner is practicing in the
state meets minimum requirements for safe practice.
◉ What is legislative intent?
Answer: It is the intent that PT practitioners who fall below
minimum competency or who otherwise present a danger to the
public be prohibited from practicing in this state.
◉ What does board mean ?
Answer: Means board of PT practice
◉ What does department mean?
Answer: Department of health
◉ What does license mean ?
,Answer: The document of authorization granted by the board and
issued by the department for s person to engage in the practice of
PT.
◉ What does endorsement mean ?
Answer: Licensure granted by the board pursuant to the provisions
of chapter 486
◉ What does Physical therapist mean?
Answer: A person who is licensed and who practices PT in
accordance with the provisions of this chapter
◉ What does PTA mean ?
Answer: A person who is licensed in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter to preform patient related activities including use of
physical agents, whose license is in good standing and whose
activities are preformed under the direction of a PT as set forth in
rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.
◉ Patient related activities preformed by a PTA for a board certified
orthopedic physician or physiatrist licensed pursuant to chapter 458
or 459 or a practitioner licensed under chapter 460 shall be under
what type of supervision?
Answer: General supervision of a PT, but shall not require onsite
supervision by a PT.
,◉ Patient related activities preformed for all other health care
practitioners licensed under chapter 458/459 and those patient
related activities preformed for practitioners licensed under chapter
461/466 shall be preformed under what supervision?
Answer: Onsite supervision of a PT
◉ What does physical therapy practitioner mean?
Answer: A PT or PTA who is licensed and who practices PT in
accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
◉ What does physical therapy or physiotherapy mean ?
Answer: Each of these terms are deemed identical and
interchangeable with each other , means a health care profession.
◉ What is direct supervision ?
Answer: Means supervision by a PT who is licensed pursuant to this
chapter. Except in a case of emergency, direct supervision requires
the physical presence of the licensed PT for consultation and
direction of the actions of the PT or PTA who is practicing under a
temp license or who is a candidate for licensure by examination.
◉ What is a physical therapy assessment ?
, Answer: Means observational, verbal, or manual determinations of
the function of the musculoskeletal or neuromuscular system
relative to PT.
◉ What does a physical therapy assessment include ?
Answer: Including but not limited to range of motion of a joint,
motor power, postural attitudes, bio mechanical function,
locomotion, Or functional abilities, for the purpose of making
recommendations for treatment.
◉ What does practice of physical therapy mean?
Answer: Means the performance of physical therapy assessments
and the treatment of any disability, injury, disease or other health
condition of a human being, or the prevention of such disability,
injury, disease, or other condition of health, and rehabilitation as
related thereto by the use of physical, chemical, and other properties
of air, electricity, exercise, massage, the performance of acupuncture
only upon compliance with the criteria set forth by the board of
medicine.
◉ The practice of physical therapy also includes what when no
penetration of the skin occurs?
Answer: The use of radiant energy, including ultraviolet, visible and
infrared rays, ultrasound, water, the use of apparatus and equipment
in the application of the forgoing or related thereto. The
performance of tests of neuromuscular functions as an aid to the
