The Foundation for Vertebral Subluxation

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The Foundation for Vertebral Subluxation
Davinci Conference II July 12, 2012

• Matthew McCoy DC, MPH
• Vice President Foundation for Vertebral
  Subluxation

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Foundation for Vertebral Subluxation

• 501 c3 Non Profit
• Not a Membership Organization
• Think Tank
• Focus on Policy Education Research Service
• Dedicated to the Founding Principles Tenets of
  the Chiropractic Profession

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Board of Directors

• Christopher Kent DC, JD - President
• Matthew McCoy DC, MPH Vice President
• Curtis Fedorchuk DC Board Member
• Veronica Gutierrez DC Board Member

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Advisory Board

• Jim Brandau DC
• Harold "Skip" George DC, DPhCS
• Spence Jahner DC
• Israel "Izzy" Maldonado DC
• Simon Senzon MA, DC
• Lee Carroll DC, PhD
• Robin G Taylor DC
• Liam Schubel DC
• John Fay DC
• Brian Capra DC

• Robin Swaminathan DC
• Jay Holder DC
• Bill Decken DC, LCP
• Danita Thomas Heagy DC
• Ross M F McDonald DC
• Eric Russell DC, DPhCS
• Rob Sinnott DC, DPhCS
• Leonard F. Vernon DC
• Scott Blair JD
• Tony Croke DC

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Mission

• MISSION To advocate for and advance the founding
  principles and tenets of the chiropractic
  profession in the area of vertebral subluxation.
• Protect the right of all doctors of chiropractic
  to provide subluxation correction and of all
  people to choose to receive such care.
• Advance and promote traditional chiropractic to
  all people, including the public, the media,
  legislators and all those directly or indirectly
  associated with the chiropractic profession.
• Provide important clarification of the role of
  subluxation-centered chiropractic in health care.
  
• Support evidence-based practice guidelines and
  related research which protect the rights of
  patients to receive chiropractic care for the
  analysis and correction of vertebral
  subluxations.
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Objective

• Emphasize the difference in philosophy and
  approach between chiropractic and medicine and
  advance the traditional chiropractic focus on
  detecting, reducing and correcting vertebral
  subluxations to enhance the expression of the
  body's inherent capacity to be healthy.

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Strategic Plan

• Communication
• Research
• Governance accountability
• Remove non-chiropractic requirements
• Model practice act
• Mutual support

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Strategic Plan

• To fulfill our mission and advance the
  chiropractic profession, we commit to the
  following
• Communication Make communication a priority by
  forming a broadly constituted Task Force charged
  with increasing awareness and understanding of
  the role of vertebral subluxation correction
  within and outside the profession.

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Strategic Plan

• Research Create a vertebral subluxation-centered
  research culture within the profession. This will
  involve collecting data on vertebral subluxation
  as it relates to health outcomes, supporting the
  development and application of subluxation-centere
  d guidelines, encouraging practice-based health
  outcomes research, supporting subluxation-centered
  peer reviewed journals, and exploring ways to
  involve all stakeholders in this process.

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Strategic Plan

• Governance accountability Enhance the internal
  accountability of the profession by creating a
  network of active subluxation-centered
  practitioners who can monitor national and local
  regulatory agency actions, serve on licensing and
  regulatory boards, take leadership roles in
  professional organizations, host local leadership
  development workshops, and participate in inter-
  and intra-disciplinary forums.

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Strategic Plan

• Remove non-chiropractic requirements Initiate a
  targeted campaign to remove any adjunctive
  therapy as a mandatory requirement of
  chiropractic licensure in order to safeguard the
  right to practice for those who do not wish to
  include therapeutic approaches in their scope of
  practice.

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Strategic Plan

• Model practice act Develop and implement a model
  chiropractic practice act that strengthens the
  legal status of subluxation-centered
  chiropractic, clarifies our scope of practice,
  and allows for differentiation from chiropractors
  wishing to obtain optional certification outside
  traditional chiropractic.

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Strategic Plan

• Mutual support Assist vertebral
  subluxation-centered chiropractors to develop
  effective practices that recognize the need for
  specificity of analysis and correction, provide
  the best possible chiropractic patient care,
  maintain high ethical standards, incorporate
  sound business and financial principles, and be
  better equipped to market themselves to their
  patients and community. This will be accomplished
  through subluxation-focused mentoring and
  coaching programs, business training, and the
  development and provision of information and
  resources for chiropractors wishing to maintain a
  subluxation-centered practice.

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Accomplishments

• Communication
• The Foundation sends out a weekly e-mail
  newsletter that clarifies and reports on issues
  crucial to the subluxation movement.
• The Foundation provided a scholarship for a
  student to participate in the WHO intern program
  in Geneva.
• The Foundation arranged for a 3 month internship
  at the United Nations on the UN Health Committee
  for Christie Kwon.
• We have a close working relationship with this
  Health Committee
• The Foundation has written papers on topics
  related to subluxation, legislation and Medicare
  that have been published.
• The Foundation provided formal submissions and
  testimony in the recent USDOE Hearings on the CCE

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Accomplishments

• Research
• The Foundation together with the Chiropractic
  Leadership Alliance funded student research
  scholarships totaling over 30,000.
• Currently developing a health outcomes research
  project involving military veterans.
• Exploring grants for the conduct of research as
  well as grants for the development of subluxation
  based guidelines.
• Currently establishing Advisory Committee to
  launch a prospective, longitudinal health
  outcomes study of subjects under subluxation
  based care.
• Established an Independent Human Subjects
  Research Review Board and have reviewed and
  approved about a dozen research projects in the
  United States and Europe.

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Accomplishments

• Governance accountability
• Partnered with the International Federation of
  Chiropractors and Organizations (IFCO) on a
  Committee that is focused on addressing state
  board representation of subluxation centered
  chiropractic
• Foundation has contacted each state board in the
  United States through the Freedom of Information
  Act seeking records regarding the Doctor of
  Chiropractic Medicine Degree.
• The Foundation is involved with discussions
  regarding alternative accrediting agencies,
  curriculum development and educational standards
  for subluxation centered chiropractic education.

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Accomplishments

• Model practice act
• Foundation President Dr. Christopher Kent has
  drafted a Model Practice Act for use by domestic
  and International groups seeking subluxation
  oriented statutory and legislative language.

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Accomplishments

• Mutual support
• The Foundation is in the developmental stages of
  a formal program to guide and mentor
  chiropractors and new graduates who wish to
  establish subluxation centered practices.

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The Linchpin
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Drugs
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ADHD
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Never doubt that a small group of committed
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So What Are the Options?

• Scenario 1 Allow the Existing CCE Agenda to
  Continue
• Scenario 2 Occupational Retraining
• Scenario 3 Rearrange the Deck Chairs
• Scenario 4 Curricular Freedom Model
• Scenario 5 Establish an Alternative Accrediting
  Agency

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Curricular Freedom Model

• AKA - Two Track Model
• Substantial structural and personnel changes
  would be made within the CCE in order to create
  two autonomous accreditation Councils.
• These Councils would enable curricular freedom
  for both the primary care and conservative
  factions.
• The key for this model to be successful is the
  ability for both Councils to work autonomously.
• This restructuring of the CCE would then offer
  accreditation of two programs leading to
  chiropractic degrees that would be offered by
  institutions.
• One program would lead to the already existing
  Doctor of Chiropractic and the other would lead
  to an as yet unnamed degree.
• This proposal would have to include the
  development of similar autonomous bodies and
  testing programs within the National Board of
  Chiropractic Examiners or establish an additional
  testing arm.

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Curricular Freedom Model

• This proposal does not include the concept of
  tiering or a hierarchy in any way as it is
  detrimental to both factions.
• More so, it suggests that the subluxation
  centered chiropractor is inferior.
• Under no circumstances would this proposal move
  forward under such concepts.

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Curricular Freedom Model
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Our Position

• The CCE is not going to budge
• The Cartel has embraced Primary Care The
  profession will follow
• Obamacare will only enhance this
• Emphasis on NMS
• Limited formulary (10-12 drugs)
• Refer for the rest
• Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine is in play

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Long Hard Slog

• State by State Changes in CCE Only Language
• Establish Second Accrediting Agency

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Any Questions?
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Contact Us

• Foundation for Vertebral Subluxation
• www.vertebralsubluxation.org
• Phone [phone]
• FAX [phone]
• 4390 Bells Ferry Road
• Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
• 30144
• E-Mail
• vertebralsubluxation_at_gmail.com