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Yes, I know that there will be those in the profession who will denigrate me for suggesting that I know what "real chiropractic" is. I'm happy to take them on considering I've formally been in this profession for 20 years and you can add another 15 for the time prior as a patient.

Plus, only the most rabid anti-chiropractor secretly (or openly) wishing for the profession to go the way of the dodo bird would encourage, endorse or otherwise sanction the lunacy that's been taking place recently.

You may have heard about the recent statement by the General Chiropractic Council in the United Kingdom that the subluxation theory "...is not supported by any clinical research evidence that would allow claims to be made that it is the cause of disease or health concerns."

 

Or you may have heard about the new proposed code of conduct in Australia that has chiropractors there worried about restricting the forms of advertising used, curtailing wellness type care, discouraging the recommendation that parents get their kids checked regularly and even that chiropractors will need to be up to date on all vaccines.

 

Or you may be aware that chiropractic can no longer claim to be a drugless profession as some of our bretheren in several states push for prescriptive rights - and in some cases have gotten it. Dr. Gerry Clum summed up the drug issue nicely recently: "For my nickel, this is the most dangerous movement I have ever witnessed in my 40-year career in chiropractic." 

Or you may have read the recent commentary by Simon French, Bruce Walker and Stephen Perle in Chiropractic care for children: too much, too little or not enough?" in which the authors state after lamenting about the paucity of chiropractic pediatric research:

 

"Thus it may also be reasonable to suggest that a short trial of 'placebo treatment' is warranted!"

 

The wheels appear to be coming off the wagon.

The bottom line is that all forms of chiropractic research and political advocacy is crucial to our survival at this point. But, for a profession that suggests its littlest patients are its most important - the situation is even more serious and acute.

 

I'm urging you to do three things right now: