UK physiotherapy sells out to Big Pharma. Is chiropractic next?

UK physiotherapy sells out to Big Pharma. Is chiropractic next?



(NaturalNews) Be prepared to buy another dictionary next year because
the one you have is going to be obsolete. Today, physiotherapy is
defined as "the treatment of disease by physical exercise, massage etc.,
not drugs." This definition; however, will need to be amended to
indicate a recent victory gained by Big Pharma. Last month, a landmark
decision was awarded to UK physiotherapists to give them the world's
first prescribing rights.

The achievement of this long-fought
battle will ensure patients will have quicker access to medicines like
anti-inflammatories and pain killers so they won't have to make a
special visit to theirMD for prescriptions. To show their approval and
support in this controversial decision, the British Chiropractic Association
(BCA) welcomed the announcement and made their own in like manner, "The
BCA, which is committed to improving quality and enhancing patient
choice in the provision of musculoskeletal services, has already made
representation to the statutory regulator, the General Chiropractic Council for the chiropractic profession to acquire prescribing rights and supports on-going dialogue to achieve this objective."

Will U.S. chiropractors keep true to their roots?

From
its inception in 1895, chiropractic (Greek for "done by hand") has
created a niche for itself as a drugless, alternative healthcare option
for people who seek relief for anything from headaches to autism.
According to the Association of Chiropractic Colleges (ACC),
"Chiropractic is a health care discipline which emphasizes the inherent
recuperative power of the body to heal itself without the use of drugs
or surgery." Currently, the ACC contends that "Chiropractic is concerned
with the preservation and restoration of health, and focuses particular
attention on the subluxation. A subluxation is a complex of functional
and/or structural and/or pathological articular changes that compromise
neural integrity and may influence organ system function and general
health."

Recent actions by the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE); however, may be putting the integrity of chiropractic
as a non-allopathic health care model in jeopardy because of the
proposed shift away from chiropractic-specific elements (i.e. the
subluxation and drugless/non-surgical nature of chiropractic science and
practice). If the CCE continues along this path, the chiropractors in
the U.S. will be reading a similar press release as the BCA announcement
above. National University of Health Sciences is already
offering a Doctor of Chiropractic "Medicine" Program preparing students
to be Primary Care Physicians and require their students to submit
immunization information prior to registering for courses. The fingers
of Big Pharma
are all over chiropractic right now. The question is whether or not the
purists can save their profession from getting trapped into the
pharmaceutical spiderweb.

The fight to take chiropractic back from Big Pharma

The
CCE policies, procedures, and standards which accredited educational
institutions are required to follow have ignited a raging controversy
within the chiropractic profession. In a public statement by the DaVinci Group,
a nationwide coalition of chiropractic professional associations,
clinical specialty organizations, research groups, advocacy
organizations and individual practitioners, one of the proposed
standards is to definitively define chiropractic as "without drugs and
surgery." Thus far, 58 organizations have signed on to and endorsed the
reform effort.

Support the movement to keep chiropractic drug-less. Contact your state board and voice your concern: http://www.acatoday.org


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