Index to Chiropractic Literature
Index to Chiropractic Literature
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ID 18168
  Title Chiropractic: future vision [interview]
URL http://www.acatoday.org/JacaCollDisplay.cfm?CID=328
Journal JACA Online. 2005 Jan-Feb;42(1):Online access only p 2-7
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Abstract/Notes If current trends continue, there will be about 100,000 doctors of chiropractic practicing in the United States in 2015. That's nearly as many chiropractic practitioners as family physicians, and a 50% increase from 1990. Meanwhile, competitive health professions have also experienced unprecedented levels of growth, with the number of qualified acupuncturists expected to double by 2015 and the number of certified massage therapists already having nearly quadrupled between 1995 and 2002. Even if those numbers may be a little high-since those 2003 projections were based on the historically high enrollment in chiropractic colleges of a few years ago, which has since declined-the trend is clear: there will be many more doctors of chiropractic (and massage therapists and acupuncturists) in 2015 than there were in 1990. What will happen to those 100,000 doctors of chiropractic? How will they distinguish themselves from their many complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) colleagues as they establish a clear foothold in the evolving health care marketplace? Having joined the previously unwelcoming world of managed care, chiropractic seems to be evolving toward mainstream health practice. How does the profession retain its unique identity while working more closely with practitioners in medicine and other specialties to successfully keep its own niche in the world of evidence-based health care?

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