In the US, the scope of practice of health care professionals is a
matter for each state to decide. Only the one of doctors is regulated
nationwide. Other health care professions’ scope of practice can vary
considerably within the US. This means that a chiropractor in one state
of the US might be allowed to do more (or less) than in the next state.
But what exactly are US chiropractors legally allowed to do?
A recent paper was aimed at answering this very question. Its authors assessed the current status of chiropractic practice laws in the US.
A cross-sectional survey of licensure officials from the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards e-mail list was conducted in 2011 requesting information about chiropractic
practice laws and 97 diagnostic, evaluation, and management procedures.
To evaluate content validity, the survey was distributed in draft form
at the fall 2010 Federation of Chiropractic
Licensing Boards regional meeting to regulatory board members and
feedback was requested. Comments were reviewed and incorporated into the
final survey....
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