Bill is fraught with dangers to the public

Published: 2010-01-10 10:33:55
Author: Robert Lincoln | Sentinel | January 6, 2010

The Garden State Chiropractic Society is keeping a watchful eye on Senate bill S-565, which poses a risk to New Jersey health consumers. This scope of practice bill, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney and Senator Loretta Weinberg, is being pushed through the legislative process during the lame-duck session and holiday season.

This proposal would allow medically untrained chiropractors to examine and adjust all of the articulations and soft tissue of the body without any physical relationship to the spine. That means a New Jersey licensed chiropractor could treat every joint in the body and examine, diagnose, analyze and treat all soft tissue, including breast, liver, heart, gynecological and pancreas. Chiropractic care has always been based on the spine. Chiropractors do not have the medical or educational training to perform these additional treatments.

S-565 was created without our input. It's fraught with dangers to the public, who should not settle for mediocre medical care.

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