Chiropractic Principles Quiz 1 Questions with Complete Solutions Graded to Pass

Work activities (% of time) - Patient care 56% Documentation 26% Business Managemnt17% Settings chiropractic care is now available - - Military bases - VA's (veterans administration centers) - Hospitals - Interdisciplinary Health Centers What percentage of DCs are sole proprietors - 75% What percentage of DCs are employees - 14% What percentage of DCs are in a partnership - 8% what is the % of US adults who have seen a DC in the past year - 14% what is the % of US adults who have ever seen a DC - 51% Chiropractic Organizations - - American Chiropractic Association (ACA) - International Chiropractic Association (ICA) - World Federation of Chiropractic How many members does the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) - Largest Chiropractic professional organization (15,000 members) Definition of Chiropractic according to the ACA - A health care profession that focuses on disorders of the musculoskeletal system, and the nervous system, and the effects of the disorders on general health International Chiropractic Association (ICA) definition of chiropractic - Promotes chiropractic as a non-theraputic, drugless and surgical free health science. Based on chiropractics fundamental principles and philosophy World Federation of Chiropractic's goal - Position chiropractors as The Spinal Health Care Experts in the health care system David Daniel Palmer (D.D. Palmer) - Born in 1845 - Discovered chiropractic - Magnetic healer prior to starting chiropractic What happened in 1895? - DD Palmer gave the first chiropratic adjustment to a patient named Harvey Lillard and the adjustment restored his hearing Who named chiropractic? - Samuel Weed What year did DD Palmer write the book: The Chiropractor's Adjuster? - 1910 Who founded TCC? - J.N. Stone in 1908 Who was the first long term president of TCC? - James Drain Who is known as the developer of chiropractic? When was he born? - - Bartlett Joshua Palmer (BJ Palmer) - He was born in 1882 Morikubo case in 1907. Describe - - Dr. Morikubo was charged with practicing medicine without a license - Defense was that chiropractic is different from medicine in that it does not diagnose or treat disease - case introduced the term subluxation - Morikubo was acquitted but with far reaching consequences to the profession (because of the whole chiropractors do not diagnose or treat diseases statement) - As a result of the case, BJ Palmer published "The Science of Chiropractic: Its Principles and Philosophies" in 1910 and inthe book he created the "straight" philosophy