National Association for Chiropractic Medicine
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The National Association for Chiropractic Medicine (NACM) is a chiropractic association that claims its members "confine their scope of practice to scientific parameters and seek to make legitimate the utilization of professional manipulative procedures in mainstream health care delivery" [1].
Representing a minority group of reform chiropractors, the NACM advocates a highly limited use of chiropractic for the treatment of "sore backs and other musculo-skeletal problems" [2]. By openly rejecting some of the more controversial aspects of chiropractic, including the original chiropractic hypothesis that vertebral subluxations are the cause of all diseases [3], NACM members claim to receive mainstream approval[1] more so than practitioners of straight or mixing chiropractic. The NACM has met with disapproval from the International Chiropractors Association (ICA)[4][5] and other chiropractic organizations[6], and sparked controversy within the chiropractic profession in 1986 by coming out in favor of chiropractors using pharmaceuticals[7].
The NACM is a private organization that does not release membership data, however sources (including the ICA) have estimated its membership to be in the "low hundreds" [8] or less[9].
NACM has been called "a Trojan Horse, established to further suppress traditional chiropractic."[10]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b National Association for Chiropractic Medicine Official website
- ^ Foreman, Judy. "Chiropractic makes gains vs. skeptics". Boston Globe Online. 06/23/1997, p. C1.
- ^ Barrett, Stephen. "Chiropractic's Elusive 'Subluxation'". Quackwatch. December 25, 2001.
- ^ "Chiropractic Advisory Committee Named by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs." International Chiropractors Association.
- ^ Letter from President of the ICA to the Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal. International Chiropractors Association. November 19, 2002.
- ^ "Berkeley newsletter says: 'Be wary of chiropractors'". The Chiropractic Journal. October, 1992.
- ^ "NACM sparks national controversy: Association says chiropractic should use drugs". The Chiropractic Journal. October, 1986.
- ^ "Chiropractic in the United States: Training, Practice, and Research." Research Summary. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD.
- ^ Letter from President of the ICA to the Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal. International Chiropractors Association. November 19, 2002.
- ^ How to Spot and Handle Suppression in Medicine, Anthony di Fabio, 1996, page 48. ISBN 0-9658941-0-X available online
