Index to Chiropractic Literature
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URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1839915/
Journal J Can Chiropr Assoc. 2005 Sep;49(3):146-149
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Abstract/Notes Excerpt: It has been interesting to read the opposing viewpoints of Drs. Allan Halowski and Mark Bodnar in the September and December 2004 issues of the JCCA. How we define ourselves as a profession determines our direction forward. I believe this subject is so important I would like to see it debated all the way into our teaching colleges because clearly there is disparity in our profession that does not augur well for the future. Last year I studied medical acupuncture in the Department of Anaesthesia at Mc-Master Medical School in Ontario. Several final year chiropractic and medical students had been allowed to take the course which involves a thorough anatomy review with emphasis on the soft tissue component of M.S.K. pain syndromes relative to needle insertion. One day, the chiropractic students and I got into conversation.On being questioned, I described how my thirty years of clinical experience had served to confirm what I had been taught in chiropractic college (A.E.C.C. 1972), that axial skeleton asymmetry and associated vertebral subluxations were, in most cases, responsible for soft tissue disorders.

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