Chiropractic Paradigm
The 6th Biennial Chiropractic Congress of the World Federation of Chiropractic in Paris May 21-26, 2001, could be the venue for an important moment in recent chiropractic history. At this event, representatives of more than 60 national chiropractic associations will consider the adoption of two position papers developed by the Association of Chiropractic Colleges (ACC): the ACC Chiropractic Paradigm, and the ACC Chiropractic Scope and Practice.
The ACC Chiropractic Paradigm was developed in July 1996; the ACC Chiropractic Scope and Practice position paper was published in February 1997.
Here are excerpts from the ACC Chiropractic Paradigm and the ACC Chiropractic Scope of Practice position papers:
ACC POSITION ON CHIROPRACTIC
Chiropractic is a health care discipline that emphasizes the inherent recuperative power of the body to heal itself without the use of drugs or surgery.
The practice of chiropractic focuses on the relationship between structure (primarily the spine) and function (as coordinated by the nervous system) and how that relationship affects the preservation and restoration of health. In addition, Doctors of Chiropractic recognize the value and responsibility of working in cooperation with other health care practitioners when in the best interest of the patient.
The Association of Chiropractic Colleges continues to foster a unique, distinct chiropractic profession that serves as a health care discipline for all. The ACC advocates a profession that generates, develops, and utilizes the highest level of evidence possible in the provision of effective, prudent, and cost-conscious patient evaluation and care.
THE CHIROPRACTIC PARADIGM:
PURPOSE: The purpose of chiropractic is to optimize health.
PRINCIPLE: The body's innate recuperative power is affected by and integrated through the nervous system.
PRACTICE: The practice of chiropractic includes:
* establishing a diagnosis;
* facilitating neurological and biomechanical integrity
* through appropriate chiropractic case management; and
* promoting health.
FOUNDATION: The foundation of chiropractic includes philosophy, science, art, knowledge, and clinical experience.
IMPACTS: The chiropractic paradigm directly influences the following:
* education;
* research;
* health care policy and leadership;
* relationships with other health care providers;
* professional stature;
* public awareness and perceptions; and
* patient health through quality care.
THE SUBLUXATION:
Chiropractic is concerned with the preservation and restoration of health, and focuses particular attention on the subluxation.
A subluxation is a complex of functional and/or structural and/or pathological articular changes that compromise neural integrity and may influence organ system function and general health.
A subluxation is evaluated, diagnosed, and managed through the use of chiropractic procedures based on the best available rational and empirical evidence.
DEFINING CHIROPRACTIC SCOPE:
Since human function is neurologically integrated, Doctors of Chiropractic evaluate and facilitate biomechanical and neurobiological function and integrity through the use of appropriate conservative, diagnostic and chiropractic care procedures.
Therefore, direct access chiropractic care is integral to everyone's health care regimen.
The ACC developed the position papers to define chiropractic's role in health care for the North American chiropractic colleges, which in turn would promote a more unified approach to education and practice.
HERE'S A THOUGHT!!
"A loser is envious of winners & contemptuous of other losers; a winner judges others only by how well they live up to their own capacities, not by some external scale of worldly success, & can have more respect for a capable shoeshine boy than for a crass opportunist." (Sydney J. Harris.)
CHIROPRACTIC PHILOSOPHY:
The 33 Principles of Chiropractic: R.W. Stephenson, 1927:
No. 15. No Motion without the Effort of Force: "Matter can have no motion without the application of force by intelligence."
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