Friday, January 23, 2004
 
Law Clear that You Must Have a License to Be a Chiropractor
1/23/2004

Local and state authorities are apparently unwilling to address unlicensed chiropractic practice in Garfield County.

Oklahoma law is clear that an individual is required to have the appropriate education and training before practicing medicine or providing chiropractic care to citizens. A medical or chiropractic practice is not a right: these services are highly regulated to ensure the safety of the public. Licensing is mandatory before medical or chiropractic care can be provided to the general public. The purpose of these licensing requirements is to protect the public from untrained practitioners who, because of their lack of training and education, may cause harm to patients in the course of their “treatment.”

It is clear to the local authorities that there are persons within our community that are providing these services without the appropriate training, education and license. This matter has been the subject of investigation for years by local and state authorities, yet we see no enforcement of rules and regulations which prohibit unlicensed medical practice within our community. The public must have comfort that the supposed professionals who provide these services have the appropriate education and training. Unlicensed professionals should not be free to prey on the public by falsely representing that they have the required training and education. These regulations should be enforced to protect the health and safety of the public. We ask that our local authorities enforce these rules and regulations as a matter of public health and safety.

Dr. Tom Smith, D.C.
Dr. Frank Kampschroeder, D.C.
Dr. Phillip Reed, D.C.
Dr. Viki Resler, D.C.
Dr. Barbara McFadden, D.C.
Dr. Jon Wren, D.C.
 
Comments
 
Tammy writes:
 
"OK. Today we have six chiropractors that are obviously in the camp. I see that three are missing, these are Anderson, Kenyon, and Bartel. And so, first I need to say that if any of these three chiropractors would like to come to my office to discuss the opportunity of me referring my clientele to them for 'spinal manipulation' that now might be a good time. Of course we would have to come to an agreement of what that means and when it is appropriate.

You see, the issue really IS public safety and that is what I have been talking about for years now. I have approached the chiropractors in the community repeatedly in the hopes of getting them to learn my grandfather's methods and philosophy. The sad thing is that although I was allowed the opportunity of demonstrating Dr. Craton's technique on three chiropractors (Smith, Kampschroeder, Bartel) personally, they refused to carry it on to the public. Now does that mean that I did not help the named chiropractors or does it mean that they either didn't feel expert enough to stand in the presence of Craton, or that they just didn't want to actually learn enough to let their patients go because now they're well. Go figure.

The simple fact is that I do NOT perform 'spinal manipulation' as anything other than an adjunct to the cornerstone of the work. That cornerstone is not 'manipulation'. It is adjustment. And I predominantly do not even address the spinal column. Instead, I correctly adjust the position of the joints directly around the spinal column. This correction takes the stress off of the spinal column and then the column is allowed to straighten by itself in the course of time. I maintain that with the primary condition, of which I have mentioned above in reference to adjustment corrected, that any spinal manipulation done at that time can speed up the healing process if, and only if, the corrections that I have made are not disturbed by the chiropractor. And this is the problem; repeatedly I have correctly adjusted the atlanto-occipital joint to have one of my clients go to a chiropractor, because truthfully the public just doesn't fully understand these issues yet, only to have the chiropractor undo what I've done. The result is that my client will then come back to me complaining of a pinched nerve sensation in their neck and then I have to start all over again.

This will not do. Chiropractors, we need to get together and sit down at the table of science and moral debate for the safety of the public. I promise you that if we can do this, Enid will finally be on the map. I would like to get names like Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Troy Aikman, Michael J. Fox, etc. over here. Don't you think that would be good for Enid?"
 

 © 2004 The Enid News & Eagle.

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