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Misuse of the terms chiropractic and chiropractor

¹ Education Committee, Spanish Chiropractic Association, Pelai 11, 4B, Barcelona 08001, Spain; in8nrg{at}terra.es

Keywords: chiropractic manipulation; cervical spine

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I read with interest the case report by Beck et al.¹

During the course of their case report Dr Beck and coauthors refer to the involved care provider as a "chiropractitioner" and describe the intervention delivered by that care provider as "chiropractic manipulation". However, in Germany, a chiropractor and a chiropractitioner are very different. In that country a person who uses the title chiropractor will have successfully completed a course of study, usually of a minimum of five years, at a college/university accredited by the European Council on Chiropractic Education (ECCE). On the other hand, a chiropractitioner (also called a Heilpraktiker) usually has no formal qualification in chiropractic and at most may have completed a series of weekend seminars (personal communication, President, German Chiropractic Association). Therefore, it needs to be highlighted that the two are so different that it is inappropriate to use the terms chiropractic and chiropractic manipulation when referring to the care provided by a . . . [Full text of this article]

J Beck², A Raabe², E Dettmann³, V Seifert⁴

² Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany
³ Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Frankfurt
⁴ Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Frankfurt

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr J Beck
Department of Neurosurgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Schleusenweg 2–16, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; j.beck{at}em.uni-frankfurt.de