“The national health regulator and Australia’s health ministers are being lobbied to either sack or overhaul the Chiropractic Board of Australia.

The board is accused of failing to sanction practitioners who have broken advertising laws by making false claims about the benefits of their treatments, such as the ability to cure asthma, or to stop crying in babies.”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-18/chiropractic-board-of-australia-under-investigation/7096366

So apart from some advertising porkies they are happy with the general concept then?

I wonder if there’s a Homeopathy Board of Australia?

Peak Warming Man said:

“The national health regulator and Australia’s health ministers are being lobbied to either sack or overhaul the Chiropractic Board of Australia.

The board is accused of failing to sanction practitioners who have broken advertising laws by making false claims about the benefits of their treatments, such as the ability to cure asthma, or to stop crying in babies.”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-18/chiropractic-board-of-australia-under-investigation/7096366

So apart from some advertising porkies they are happy with the general concept then?

I wonder if there’s a Homeopathy Board of Australia?

planking is old hat.

Peak Warming Man said:

“The national health regulator and Australia’s health ministers are being lobbied to either sack or overhaul the Chiropractic Board of Australia.

The board is accused of failing to sanction practitioners who have broken advertising laws by making false claims about the benefits of their treatments, such as the ability to cure asthma, or to stop crying in babies.”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-18/chiropractic-board-of-australia-under-investigation/7096366

So apart from some advertising porkies they are happy with the general concept then?

I wonder if there’s a Homeopathy Board of Australia?

I don’t think this implies they are happy with the concept. The AHPRA does not have unlimited godlike powers.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/call-for-age-limit-after-chiropractor-breaks-babys-neck-20130928-2ul6e.html

Call for age limit after chiropractor breaks baby’s neck

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A baby’s neck has been broken by a chiropractor in an incident doctors say shows the profession should stop treating children.
The injury was reported to the Chiropractic Board of Australia, which closed the case without reporting it to the public and allowed the chiropractor to keep practising as long as they undertook education with an ‘‘expert in the field of paediatric chiropractic”.
The Sun-Herald has also seen evidence that chiropractors have been entering Sydney hospitals, including neo-natal intensive care wards and surgical wards, to treat patients without the required permission.
NSW Health has warned that any chiropractor working in a hospital without permission could put patients at risk, while the Australian Medical Association NSW says the behaviour is “outrageous”.

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Melbourne paediatrician Chris Pappas cared for a four-month-old baby last year after one of her vertebrae was fractured during a chiropractic treatment for torticollis – an abnormal neck position that is usually harmless. He said the infant was lucky to make a full recovery.

‘‘Another few millimetres and there would have been a devastating spinal cord injury and the baby would have either died or had severe neurological impairment with quadriplegia,’‘ he said.
Dr Pappas complained to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, which referred the case to the Chiropractic Board. Three weeks ago, he received a letter from AHPRA saying the case had been closed after the chiropractor committed to completing further education.

Dr Pappas said he was concerned the decision was an endorsement of chiropractic treatment for infants when there was no scientific evidence to support it.
‘‘I think they have put the chiropractor’s interests before the interests of the public,’‘ Dr Pappas said. ‘’ is inappropriate and it carries a very small but real risk of causing damage, and in some cases, devastating damage.’‘
A review published in the Pediatrics journal in 2007 also found serious adverse events relating to spinal manipulations in children, including a brain haemorrhage and paraplegia.
However, the president of the Chiropractors’ Association of Australia, Laurie Tassell, says chiropractic treatment is as safe for children as it is for adults, and chiropractors should be able to treat patients in hospital, if authorised.
“Chiropractic care can be remarkably gentle,” he said. “Being a five-year, university-trained spinal health expert, a chiropractor will modify their adjustment techniques to suit the age and spine of each individual child.”
President of the Australian Medical Association Steve Hambleton said the board needed to either produce evidence supporting chiropractic treatments for children or rule out paediatric care. ‘‘The AMA is not aware of any evidence that chiropractic manipulative treatment of infants and children offers any benefit at all,’‘ he said.
The Sun-Herald has seen Facebook conversations in which chiropractors discuss methods of sneaking into hospitals. Images, obtained by blogger Reasonable Hank, include one of a baby being adjusted in a hospital.
AMA NSW head Brian Owler said it was “absolutely outrageous” for chiropractors to treat patients in hospital without permission. “None of us can go into an emergency department of a hospital and start treating patients without proper credentials and medico-legal coverage,” he said

The Sun-Herald has seen Facebook conversations in which chiropractors discuss methods of sneaking into hospitals. Images, obtained by blogger Reasonable Hank, include one of a baby being adjusted in a hospital.
AMA NSW head Brian Owler said it was “absolutely outrageous” for chiropractors to treat patients in hospital without permission. “None of us can go into an emergency department of a hospital and start treating patients without proper credentials and medico-legal coverage,” he said.
A spokeswoman for NSW Health said treating patients without notifying the hospital may be improper conduct and it could be reported to the Health Care Complaints Commission.

The main point of concern for me is the benchmark of compliance expectations must become the same for any persons providing treatment to patients and clients. The testing of validity of medications and treatments whether homeopathic remedies or medical practitioner prescribed. A person seeking treatment should have the same assurities about licensing laws for any practitioner whether a naturopath , chino or doctor , the enforceable laws for malpractice should be equitable to act as a legitimate deterrent.

By ensuring malpractice laws apply across the natural therapy industry and medical sector at the same level of accountability and penalties may well safe guard patients reasonably and practically where investigations should inturn result in safer standards ,practises into both branches of health services.

I am certain if natural therapy services were banned tomorrow that people would still seek these therapies anyway and realising this true improving service delivery and accountabilities is vital to safeguard consumers and inform them reasonably about risks of harm or indeed what evidence exists or is lacking for treatments offered. Especially when there is a direct risk to the patients health , wellbeing and mobility.

monkey skipper said:

The Sun-Herald has seen Facebook conversations in which chiropractors discuss methods of sneaking into hospitals. Images, obtained by blogger Reasonable Hank, include one of a baby being adjusted in a hospital.
AMA NSW head Brian Owler said it was “absolutely outrageous” for chiropractors to treat patients in hospital without permission. “None of us can go into an emergency department of a hospital and start treating patients without proper credentials and medico-legal coverage,” he said.
A spokeswoman for NSW Health said treating patients without notifying the hospital may be improper conduct and it could be reported to the Health Care Complaints Commission.

The chiro I worked for wanted chiros to be in all EDs. I’m not aware that he does it himself though; he’s never been at the hospital whenever I’ve gone to emergency.

I wish chiropractors weren’t allowed to call themselves Doctor.