Thanks. It is important to understand that companies like
Irene Gold Associates exist to coach students to pass these exams by memorizing question types, answers and behaviors. I attended this series and they actually coached us to take advantage of marriage bias by purchasing a false wedding ring and wearing it to the exam. They also tell you what content will be covered vs what won't and give past questions that tend to be recycled so it is easy for someone with inadquate knowledge to pass any of the sections if they apply themselves. Straight chiropractors are against the board exams so there is a strong motivation to help students cheat their way through. Also, don't rule out connections and bribery between the college administrators and the test prep companies-chiropractic is a small world.
"Prior to conducting board reviews, Dr. Gold taught in several different chiropractic colleges for a number of years; first for Columbia Institute, then Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic, and finally ADIO Chiropractic College. Her years at Sherman College included several years as academic dean."
http://www.irenegoldassoc.com/instructors.html
See what I mean? Connections=test content.
So just because someone passes the physiotherapy test doesn't mean that they are competent. Most of the time if they attended a school that didn't teach PT this means they have no supervised experience and that they learned it at a hotel on the weekend.
Another major problem with DCs providing PT is a capacity block. PTs are very efficient because they can delegate routine procedures to PT assistants. DC assistants are not trained to this level so the delegation is not legally permitted. This means that all patient care except for passive modalities must be done by the DC. So PTs can see triple the patient load of a rehab DC, and submit triple the bills. DC adjust their style by cutting patient care to limit time spent with patients to keep the bills paid, they have no choice. This is yet another reason why the Ortho trained PT is superior.
Who would want an over rushed DC with ulterior motives when the PT would perform better? Not me. So the chiropractic system has an unavoidable bias towards limiting patient care and recycling patients into unnecessary maintenance care plans to adjust nonexistent subluxations. They can poach as much PT as they like, but there is no denying that they are still wedded to treating nonexistent mechanical lesions and this will form the core of their care.
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Why limit your practice to the 5% of the population who exhibit symptoms, when subluxation continues to do so much damage to the entire family?"
-Reggie Gold DC. Husband of Irene Gold.
Especially when refusal to treat them does so much damage to a DCs bottom line.
Medicine, PT and osteopathy have renounced these debunked lesions which is why they are science based while chiropractic is not.
DCs saying they do evidence based PT when they prosthelytize woo is an oxymoron. Rehab is lipstick on the chiropractic pig, bait for the switch to woo. They can't be trusted. That is why the PTs shut down a DC to PT program that Stanley Paris was trying to create in Florida.
