The American Chiropractic Association Council on Chiropractic Pediatrics (CCP) announced a new diplomate education program focused on pediatric care. The program will include 300 hours of education covering topics such as pediatric development from birth to age 16, adjusting techniques, working diagnosis, clinical application, integrated care and more…
Development of the diplomate education program has been in the works for several years, with contributions from many members of the CCP, including council president Jennifer Brocker, DC, DICCP. At the helm of course development for this education program are Mary Beth Minser, DC, CACCP, and Kris Tohtz, DC, LAc, educational coordinators for CCP. They agreed that the goal of the new program is to provide education that furthers knowledge of chiropractic pediatrics in an evidence-based, integrative way. “We wanted to make sure that we had something that aligned with ACA’s core principles,” Dr. Tohtz said. “Chiropractic-forward, yes, but scientifically focused.”
Dr. Brocker added, “There was a need for more evidence-informed education [in pediatrics]. I felt like the Council was well positioned to take this on because we had the opportunity to build it from scratch, making it what students and practicing doctors need.” …
Drs. Minser and Tohtz are excited that the diplomate program will also include a research component. “There is some lacking information when it comes to pediatric chiropractic,” Dr. Minser explained. She recently participated in the COURSE Study, an international study seeking to fill knowledge gaps in research relating to pediatric chiropractic treatment. “It was a very easy project to do, and pretty exciting to be involved,” she said. “But you have to know how to treat pediatric patients in order to be involved in those research projects. We want doctors and students [in this program] to be able to go through a case study, to be able to extract information for their clinical application from that case study or from research, or, if they would like, to write up case studies so we can get more published.”
“We feel we could really push pediatric chiropractic to a whole new level having doctors that have this type of knowledge base,” Dr. Minser said. “We just want to be the best pediatric chiropractors that we can be, and this diplomate [education] program helps [us] do that.”
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“There is some lacking information when it comes to pediatric chiropractic.”
Really?
I think the evidence is quite clear: chiropractic has nothing to offer for ill children that other, properly trained healthcare professionals would not do better.
“We feel we could really push pediatric chiropractic to a whole new level.”
Why?
“We just want to be the best pediatric chiropractors that we can be.”
In this case, please study the evidence and you will inevitably arrive at the following conclusion:
THE BEST A CHIROPRACTOR CAN DO FOR A SICK CHILD IS TO REFER IT TO A COMPETENT DOCTOR – A DOCTOR OF MEDICINE, NOT CHIROPRACTIC!
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Your comments do not nurture the development of further study into the clinical care of children under chiropractic care. You may want to read this recent publication on the treatment of children under 12 years of age by chiropractors.https://www.cjaonline.com.au/index.php/cja/article/view/312/144
The Safer Care Victoria review included over 20,000 submissions documenting a 96% approval rating by parents who brought there children to a chiropractor. As the twig is bent so grows the tree.
“Safer Care Victoria”
“As the twig is bent so grows the tree”
broken record [noun]: used, especially in similes, to refer to a person’s constant and annoying repetition of a particular statement or opinion.
Chiropractors and naturopaths should keep their hands off our kids, if you ask me
Published Thursday 11 January 2018
https://edzardernst.com/2018/01/chiropractors-and-naturopaths-should-keep-their-hands-off-our-kids-if-you-ask-me/
“As the twig is bent so grows the tree.”
— Michael Epstein on Thursday 11 January 2018 at 09:09
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“As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.”
— Michael Epstein on Saturday 24 December 2022 at 00:25
@Mr. Epstein wrote:
I thougt Mr. Epstein should have learned the difference between surveys and reliable evidence during all his years on this blog.
I also wonder if Mr. Epstein has actually read the Safer Care Victoria review? If memory serves me rigth, they found no justification for so-called “paediatric chiropractic” and concluded that chiropractor should not attend to children 12 years and younger.
Correct.
“THE BEST A CHIROPRACTOR CAN DO FOR A SICK CHILD IS TO REFER IT TO A COMPETENT DOCTOR – A DOCTOR OF MEDICINE, NOT CHIROPRACTIC!”
Or indeed, the best a chiropractor could do for any patient is (in the US), to qualify as an MD (and then specialise in paediatrics if they so desire).
And in UK, the best a chiropractor could do is to avoid giving the impression that ‘a chiropractor is a doctor’ (unless they do hold a doctorate – in which case, the subject of their academic achievement should be made clear).
“The program will include … adjusting techniques…”
OK, stop right there! “Adjusting techniques?” That’s the whole !#@** trouble in a nutshell. It assumes that there’s a place for chiropractic “adjusting” in a legitimate healthcare system – which we all know there isn’t.
Let me guess, program will be in hotel conferance room, two weekends.
At this moment, I’m making a list with the ‘quackiness’ level of some 200 Dutch chiropractors, and boy do we see a lot of nonsense … At least half of them explicitly target babies and children, claiming that their ‘adjustments’ can help with the (probably non-existent) KISS syndrome, infant colics, ADD and ADHD, and several other conditions.
The worst part is that our official Health Inspectorate is fully aware of these false medical claims, but so far refuses to do anything about it because no complaints about actual harm have been received …
Safer Care Victoria’s(SCV) brief was to survey members of the public on their experience of taking their children to a Chiropractor. The result was a 96% approval rating with no reported insurance claims found by SCV. I need to remind you that SCV stands for Safer Care Victoria and not Effective Care Victoria. I recommend you read the following commentary on the review. https://www.cjaonline.com.au/index.php/cja/article/view/312/144