Lamm LC, Pfannenschmidt K, Chiropractic Scope of Practice: What
the Law Allows - Update 1999, Journal of the Neuromusculoskeletal
System, Fall 1999; 7(3): 102-6.
The authors of this above article surveyed all state and provincial
chiropractic regulatory boards in North America regarding what diagnostic
and treatment procedures are permitted by statute in each of their practice
acts. The following list combines information from their article as it particularly
relates in the United States to "Craniopathy" and "Temporomandibular Joint
Evaluation and/or Treatment" as well as updated information by SOTO-USA as
of 2003.
The following is a combination
of findings from the Lamm and Pfannenschmidt study as well as exhaustive
inquiries by SOTO-USA to support SOT chiropractors practicing Cranial Manipulation,
Craniopathy and TMJ methods of treatment. Various state boards have offered
qualified responses, which means they refer to their state statutes and
do not wish at this time to make an explicit statement. Those in progress
and offering only qualified responses are being followed up by SOTO-USA
at the present time. Usually these qualified responses is the way
the state can allow Craniopathy and TMJ care within its scope of practice.
If you are practicing, Craniopathy
or TMJ care, in a state it would behoove you to check out the information
below.
SOTO-USA is attempting to make
sure that all states recognize craniopathy or cranial manipulation and TMJ
therapies as within the scope of practice of all United States chiropractors..
Some states required that craniopathy
and TMJ treatments be part of a spinal component of treatment. SOTO-USA
has written a position paper that the states can use to justify craniopathy
or cranial therapy and TMJ treatment and its relationship to chiropractic
spinal related treatment.
SOTO-USA Spinal-Cranial-TMJ
Position Paper
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