New Zealand Gazette – 2004 – No. 120

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✨ Chiropractic Board Notice



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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 120

15 SEPTEMBER 2004

CHIROPRACTIC BOARD

NOTICE OF SCOPE OF PRACTICE AND RELATED QUALIFICATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE CHIROPRACTIC BOARD

The Chiropractic Board (“the Board”) will assume its full responsibilities under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (“the Act”) on 18 September 2004. This notice will take effect from that date.

Scope of Practice

Pursuant to section 11 (1) of the Act, the Board specifies one scope of practice as follows:

Scope of Practice – Chiropractor

Chiropractic is a primary healthcare profession concerned with the relationship between structure (primarily of the spine) and function (primarily of the nervous system) as that relationship may affect the restoration, preservation and promotion of health and well-being. Chiropractic principles recognise the inherent recuperative power of the body.

Essential to the practice of Chiropractic are:

  • the assessment of conditions related to the spine, non-spinal articulations and the neuro-musculo-skeletal system.
  • the diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, management of and education about those conditions.

Aspects of Chiropractic

(1) Forming and communicating a differential diagnosis, diagnosis or clinical impression to identify a cause which impacts on a person’s symptoms, neuro-musculo-skeletal system, and / or well-being and relates to:

  • disorders arising from structures or functions of the spine and their effects on the neuro-musculo-skeletal system and/or
  • disorders arising from structures or functions of the non-spinal articulations.

Note:

Primary contact objectives mandate an appropriate level of competence in the disciplines of: anatomy, physiology, orthopaedics, neurology, rheumatology, pathology and clinical practice in order to:

  • recognise conditions requiring referral to other health care practitioners and make such referrals as appropriate. (Such referral does not obviate the responsibility of the chiropractor for providing appropriate chiropractic care.)
  • recognise contraindications to chiropractic care
  • recognise the need to modify chiropractic techniques as required
  • recognise the need for concomitant care
  • recognise and respect the cultural values of individuals and families.


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