Chiropractic report

Press, 22 February 1980, Page 12

Chiropractic report

Sir, — The confusion in the physiotherapists’ criticism of chiropractic which they describe as being at odds with the mainstream of medicine, and then proceed to claim as being a form of treatment available from orthodox practitioners will be as amazing to. the discerning public as the Commission’s decision was to Mrs Wood, the physiotherapists’ president. It was this same state of confusion that assisted the chiropracto r s to establish their claim for a Registration Act in 1960, and the physiotherapists cannot have it both ways ;* if they want to imitate chiropractic, they cannot rubbish the very thing they are trying to imitate. The Commission of Inquiry saw the di-, leinma, and resolved it by recommending to the Government that a bursary be paid to any physiotherapist who wished to go to the chiropractic college in Australia. The Commission preferred this to the present form of physiotherapy training in spinal manual therapy, which it described as “elementarv. even crude.” (Page 130 Report.) — Yours, etc., J. J. RICHARDSON, February 20, 1980.