Section 1: Professional acts.

Persons fulfilling the conditions defined in articles L. 4331-2 and L. 4331-4 may contribute, when such treatment is provided by a health or medico-social establishment or service governed by Book I of Part VI of this Code or by Book III of the Social Action and Family Code, to the treatment of deficiencies, dysfunctions, incapacities or disabilities of a somatic, psychological or intellectual nature, with a view to using, in…

In the context of performing professional occupational therapy procedures prescribed by a doctor, occupational therapists are entitled to prescribe, unless otherwise indicated by the doctor, medical devices and technical aids, the list of which is laid down by order of the ministers responsible for health and social security, issued after consulting the Académie nationale de médecine. They shall inform the prescribing doctor and, where appropriate, with the patient’s consent, the…