Index to Chiropractic Literature
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ID 21749
  Title Chiropractic at the crossroads or are we just going around in circles?
URL http://chiromt.com/content/19/1/11/abstract
Journal Chiropr & Manual Ther. 2011 ;19(11):Online access only 19 p
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Abstract/Notes Background: Chiropractic in Australia has seen many changes over the past 30 years. Some of these changes have advanced the professional status of chiropractic, improved undergraduate training and paved the way for a research culture. Unfortunately, other changes or lack of changes has hindered the growth and prosperity of chiropractic in Australia. This article explores what influences have impacted on the credibility, advancement and public utilisation of chiropractic in Australia.

Discussion: The 1970's and 1980's saw a dramatic change within the chiropractic profession in Australia. With the coming of government regulation, came government funded teaching institutions, quality research and increased public acceptance and utilisation of chiropractic services. However, since that time the profession appears to have taken a backward step, which in the author's opinion is directly linked to a shift by certain sections of the profession to the fundamentalist approach to chiropractic and the vertebral subluxation complex. The abandonment, by some groups, of a scientific and evidenced based approach to practice for one founded on ideological dogma is beginning to take its toll.

Summary: The future of chiropractic in Australia is at a crossroads. For the profession to move forward it must base its future on science and not ideological dogma. The push by some for it to become a unique and all encompassing alternative system of healthcare is both misguided and irrational.

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