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| DEFINITION OF CHIROPRACTIC |
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As defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
A system of therapy which holds that
disease results from a lack of normal nerve function
and which employs manipulation and specific adjustment
of body structures (as the spinal column).
As defined by the New York State
Law:
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S 6551. Definition of practice of chiropractic.
- The practice of the profession of chiropractic
is defined as detecting and correcting by manual or mechanical
means structural imbalance, distortion, or subluxations
in the human body for the purpose of removing nerve interference
and the effects thereof, where such interference is the
result of or related to distortion, misalignment or subluxation
of or in the vertebral column
- a. A license to practice as a chiropractor
shall not permit the holder thereof to use radio-therapy,
fluoroscopy, or any form of ionizing radiation except X-ray
which shall be used for the detection of structural imbalance,
distortion, or subluxations in the human body
b. The requirements and limitations
with respect to the use of X-ray by chiropractors shall
be enforced by the state commissioner of health and he is
authorized to promulgate rules and regulations after conferring
with the board to carry out the purposes of this subdivision
c. Chiropractors shall retain for
a period of three years all X-ray films taken in the course
of their practice, together with the records pertaining
thereto, and shall make such films and records available
to the state commissioner of health or his representative
on demand
- A license to practice chiropractic shall
not permit the holder thereof to treat for any infectious
diseases such as pneumonia, any communicable diseases listed
in the sanitary code of the state of New York, any of the
cardio-vascular-renal or cardio-pulmonary diseases, any
surgical condition of the abdomen such as acute appendicitis,
or diabetes, or any benign or malignant neoplasms; to operate;
to reduce fractures or dislocations; to prescribe, administer,
dispense or use in his practice drugs or medicines; or to
use diagnostic or therapeutic methods involving chemical
or biological means except diagnostic services performed
by clinical laboratories which services shall be approved
by the board as appropriate to the practice of chiropractic;
or to utilize electrical devices except those devices approved
by the board as being appropriate to the practice of chiropractic.
Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit a licensed
chiropractor who has successfully completed a registered
doctoral program in chiropractic, which contains courses
of study in nutrition satisfactory to the department, from
using nutritional counseling, including the dispensing of
food concentrates, food extracts, vitamins, minerals, and
other nutritional supplements approved by the board as being
appropriate to, and as a part of, his or her practice of
chiropractic. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit
an individual who is not subject to regulation in this state
as a licensed chiropractor from engaging in nutritional
counseling
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