{"data":{"id":"us-nm/61-12a-4","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"61-12A-4","heading":"Occupational therapy services. (Repealed effective July 1, 2028.)","body":"The practice of occupational therapy includes the following processes and services:\nA. evaluation of factors affecting all areas of occupation, including activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, rest and sleep, education, work, productivity, play, leisure and social participation; including:\n(1) client factors, including neuromuscular, sensory, visual, mental, cognitive and pain factors and body structures, including cardiovascular, digestive, integumentary and genitourinary systems and structures related to movement;\n(2) habits, routines, roles and behavior patterns;\n(3) cultural, physical, environmental, social and spiritual contexts and activity demands that affect performance; and\n(4) performance skills, including motor process and communication and interaction skills;\nB. activity analysis to determine activity demands of occupations performed;\nC. design, implementation and modification of therapeutic interventions, including the following activities related to selection of intervention strategies to direct the process of interventions:\n(1) establishment, remediation or restoration of a skill or ability that has not yet developed, is impaired or is in decline;\n(2) compensation, modification or adaptation of activity or environment to enhance performance or to prevent injuries, disorders or other conditions;\n(3) retention, maintenance and enhancement of skills and capabilities without which performance in everyday life activities would decline;\n(4) promotion of health and wellness, including the use of self-management strategies to enable or enhance performance in everyday life activities;\n(5) prevention of barriers to performance, including injury and disability prevention; and\n(6) interventions and procedures to promote or enhance safety and performance in areas of occupation, including:\n(a) therapeutic use of occupations, exercises and activities;\n(b) training in self-care, self-management, health management and maintenance, home management, community-work reintegration, school activities and work performance;\n(c) development, remediation or compensation of neuromusculoskeletal, sensory-perceptual, sensory-integrative and modulation, visual, mental and cognitive functions, pain tolerance and management, developmental skills and behavioral skills;\n(d) therapeutic use of self, including one's personality, insights, perceptions and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process;\n(e) education and training of persons, including family members, caregivers, groups, populations and others;\n(f) care coordination, case management and transition services;\n(g) consultative services to groups, programs, organizations or communities;\n(h) modification of home, work, school and community environments and adaptation of processes, including the application of ergonomic principles;\n(i) assessment, design, fabrication, application, fitting and training in seating and positioning, assistive technology, adaptive devices and orthotic devices and training in the use of prosthetic devices;\n(j) assessment, recommendation and training in techniques to enhance functional mobility, including management of wheelchairs and other mobility devices;\n(k) low-vision rehabilitation;\n(l) driver rehabilitation and community mobility;\n(m) management of feeding, eating and swallowing;\n(n) application of physical agent modalities and use of a range of specific therapeutic procedures such as wound care management; techniques to enhance sensory, perceptual and cognitive processing; and manual therapy techniques to enhance performance skills;\n(o) facilitating the occupational performance of groups, populations or organizations; and\n(p) management of a client's mental health, functioning and performance; and\nD. use of means to measure the outcomes and effects of interventions to reflect the attainment of treatment goals, including:\n(1) improved quality of life;\n(2) the degree of participation;\n(3) role competence;\n(4) well-being;\n(5) improved life function;\n(6) enhanced performance; and\n(7) prevention criteria.","path":["Chapter 61 - Professional and Occupational Licenses","ARTICLE 12A Occupational Therapy"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18564/index.do","current_through":"2026-05-20","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:20Z","sha256":"1b4411a2b3b0100ff6541a327aa5f9a9ed102746ee4108c6eee4cade35e5fb33","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/61-12a-3","next":"us-nm/61-12a-5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}