October 2007

What you can do

There is little doctors can do to stop the inexorable advance of the CCGPP document. Based on its announcements, as well as its contract with Work Loss Data Institute (WLDI) to publish and distribute the final document, the CCGPP's "Best Practices" document will be finalized and submitted to the profession as well as the insurance industry regardless of how many practitioners and organizations protest or reject them.

However, there are two actions doctors can take to combat the potentially devastating effects of this set of guidelines.

1. Review the CCGPP chapters as they are released (www.ccgpp.org) and submit detailed criticism outlining your objections in strong, clear language. Get your chiropractic state organization to do the same. We all need to go on record as having provided feedback so the CCGPP won't be able to say no one responded to their call for input!

2. Make a donation to the Council on Chiropractic Practice to support the continued development and revisions for the CCP Guideline. The CCP document is the ONLY major chiropractic guideline that supports chiropractic the way YOU practice it! The CCP guideline is a compilation of the best available evidence concerning the detection, management, and correction of vertebral subluxation. It serves as a tool to empower DCs with the information needed to develop more effective clinical strategies, and objectively assess functional and clinical outcomes. The CCP document also provides chiropractors with the intellectual ammunition needed to defend their practice style when challenged by regulators, policy makers, and in court proceedings.

Credit card donations may be made online via Paypal by visiting the CCP website at www.ccp‑guidelines.org , which also contains more information about the CCP, its guidelines, and the CCGPP document. Copies of the current CCP Guidelines may be downloaded free of charge at the website.