Defending yourself in court or before your board

Responding to the top 8 issues in chiropractic

With increasing frequency, subluxation-based doctors of chiropractic are being accused of wrongdoing merely because they refuse to compromise their chiropractic principles by adopting the medical model of disease care.

In court and before their own licensing boards they are being forced to defend themselves for having, as their practice purpose, the detection of correction of vertebral subluxation.

The World Chiropractic Alliance has prepared a document on eight critical chiropractic issues. This document can be used by conservative doctors to explain the scientific principles and proofs validating subluxation correction or to answer other questions often posed by opponents.

The papers have been prepared be chiropractic scientific and legal experts and contain references to substantiating documents appearing in numerous magazines, journals, and other publication. They are based, primarily, on documents prepared by Matthew McCoy, DC, editor of the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research and a member of the World Chiropractic Alliance Board of Directors. Dr. McCoy serves as the WCA's "Chiropractic Advocate" and assists doctors around the world in defending themselves against unfair attacks.

The papers can be downloaded individually or as a complete document and can be distributed to board members, attorneys, or others involved in explaining the issues or responding to questions or accusation.

The complete document is available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. Download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader if you don't already have it installed on your machine.

click here to download: Complete "Eight Issues" Document

Or, you may access and print individual reports on the following 8 issues

ISSUE 1: Do Vertebral Subluxations exist?

ISSUE 2: Informed Consent

ISSUE 3: Thermal Scanning

ISSUE 4: Can Chiropractic Promote Health?

ISSUE 5: Diagnosis of Vertebral Subluxation

ISSUE 6: Council on Chiropractic Practice

ISSUE 7: Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research

ISSUE 8: Chiropractic for Children