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ICA Issues New Practice Guidelines

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Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada in early June, ICA’s Board of Directors gathered to celebrate the Association’s 74th year of service to the chiropractic profession and the public, and to map out an aggressive set of goals for the coming year. Reporting to the Annual Meeting of the Association, ICA’s President, Dr. Robert Hoffman told that Association that: “Thanks to the determined and highly disciplined efforts of the ICA, there indeed, has never been a better time to be a chiropractor.” Dr. Hoffman presented a detailed Annual Report which outlined the growth and aggressive new initiatives and programs undertaken in the past year on behalf of chiropractic worldwide. ICA invites the profession to read this landmark report in its entirety, which can be found on ICA’s website at www.chiropractic.org.

At the top of ICA’s Board-adopted agenda was the approval and immediate release of ICA’s new Recommended Clinical Protocols and Guidelines for the Practice of Chiropractic. This exciting new guidelines document was nearly three years in the making and involved input from hundreds of practicing DCs, educators, attorneys and members of the public. This document presents a detailed set of clinical protocols for the practice of chiropractic, based on available evidence, more than a century of clinical experience, the laws establishing chiropractic, the chiropractic educational process, and ICA’s Code of Ethics and policy positions.

The new practice protocols offer a detailed and comprehensive narrative that seeks to explain and validate chiropractic procedures, with a focus on the subluxation and its neurological implications. The unique aspects of the specific chiropractic adjustment are dealt with in great detail in an effort to define, clarify and validate this uniquely chiropractic procedure. “ICA takes great pride in the release of this historic new chiropractic resource”, said ICA President Dr. Robert Hoffman. “This historic undertaking has produced a strong, defensible, practical advocacy document that marshals and arrays a well-researched, accurately referenced and substantive explanation for chiropractic procedures from the ICA perspective. I do not believe that a more complete, accurate and well-defined practice protocols document has ever been produced for the chiropractic profession.”

ICA’s guidelines process has been an open and wide-ranging endeavor, with the draft document available for profession-wide and public review via the Internet for over a full year. ICA received massive input from the field, receiving hundreds of comments from DCs, educators, students and other professions as well as more than 100 comments from consumers. “I believe that the public comment period via the Internet will lend significant additional credibility to the document, both because of the open and far-ranging comment opportunity this medium offered, and because of the careful consideration ICA’s Guidelines Working Group gave all comments.” said Dr. Hoffman. “No other guidelines document has had the benefit of such an open and widespread opportunity for profession-wide and public review and comment.”

ICA’s Recommended Clinical Protocols and Guidelines are now available on ICA’s Internet website at www.chiropractic.org. A copy will soon be being provided to every ICA member and available to the profession in both a printed edition and on CD-ROM. ICA also plans an unprecedented distribution campaign to provide the guidelines and protocols to the insurance industry, health care policy makers and other professions in an effort to build a greater understanding of the unique and powerful nature of chiropractic science.

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