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Alabama chiropractors in favor of drugs
February 15, 2011 — Last week, the Foundation reported on a House Bill in the State of New Mexico regarding the practice of chiropractic medicine. As mentioned previously, this situation is not isolated to one state.
The Alabama State Chiropractic Association (ASCA) conducted a survey of member practitioners in 2010 regarding the scope of practice in Alabama. Overall, results indicated that a majority of surveyed chiropractors are in favor of the inclusion of injectable vitamins and nutrients and prescriptive rights in the scope of practice...
Within the group of 255 respondents, 63 percent percent agreed or strongly agreed that chiropractic is a drugless alternative to allopathic medical care, and the same proportion of respondents felt that chiropractic is the detection and correction of subluxations. Seventy-six percent agreed that subluxation is an important cause of disease and correction can restore health.
However, 41 percent responded that the chiropractic profession
should abandon the term subluxation and focus on a broader scope of practice in general! A majority were also in favor of chiropractors utilizing injectable vitamins and nutrients (58 percent), as well as prescriptions of certain drugs (60 percent).
Survey respondents also believed that expanding the scope of practice in Alabama would both increase membership to the ASCA, as well as the number of patients seeking chiropractic care. Seventy-eight percent of the ASCA membership responded to this survey, which indicates that the outcome is a good representation of the climate of the chiropractric profession statewide. The Foundation hopes that practitioners in the state of Alabama consider the hazardous implications of such an expansion of scope for the chiropractic profession.
Click HERE to Read the ASCA Survey Results
Click HERE to Read the Current Alabama Chiropractic Scope of Practice
Source: Foundation for Vertebral Subluxation, http://vertebralsubluxation.health.officelive.com
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Location: AZ
Dr. G Its time to wake up and move into the 21st century. Expanding the scope of practice will only expand the number of people we are able to reach. You need to understand pharmacology and internal medicine to be able to manage a patients meds, hopefully offer them better options and maybe decrease their prescription medications. We are only seeing 5% of the population at best right now and the profession will be extinct in the near future if we do not expand into primary care. An integrat
Location: CA
For those of you that think there are too many "drug pushers, Since I have been alive, the average life span in the US has increased over 10 years. It is now 75 for women and 72 for men. In 1936, they enacted medicare and Social Security and set the date at age 65. That's because people were usually long dead by 65! We need to fill in the gap created by baby boomers entering the system and not having anyone to fill the general practice positions. Do it now or watch another profession take over
Location: Illinois
There is a group on facebook now called CHIROPRACTORS FOR PRESCRIPTIVE AUTHORITY. Join it to stay on top of news developments as they happen. Change is NOW. Get involved to help it happen now rather than later.
Location: Illinois
There is now a group on facebook called "CHIROPRACTORS FOR PRESCRIPTIVE AUTHORITY." Consider joining that group to stay up to date on these matters. Change is NOW. Get involved so it happens sooner rather than later1
Location: ms
The profession as change for the good. We as Physicians should be concern for the patients rights. And offer an medical base approach. The future is here for all professions to unit, Allopathic, Osteopathic, and Chiropractic.