Scope of Practice

During your nutrition consultation with a fraudulent chiropractor, they will often set themselves up to be the equivalent to a medical physician. Your health history will be taken in such a way that will enable a chiropractor to diagnose you with a particular neurotoxic illness then discuss how the medical community at large does not know about these tests because there is some sort of huge conspiracy preventing the truth from reaching the public. The results of the questionnaire you take will put you typically in one of two categories. Most often you will either have a heavy metal toxicity or have been exposed to black mold. They will suggest that you take the urine toxic metals test to see if you have any hidden stores of heavy metals in your body. The test is set up to provide falsely elevated results (see urine toxic metals test article here). The elevated lead and mercury results will lead you to begin a regimen that includes chelation and nutritional supplements to "treat" your condition.

Chiropractors are not physicians. They are not educated, trained or qualified in any way to diagnose or treat disease. It is highly unethical and immoral behavior. This should be a red warning flag to you. Every state has its own code of conduct for chiropractors. In the state of Pennsylvania the following is what is considered to be unprofessional and immoral conduct.
(1) Unprofessional conduct includes the following:

• (iii) Advertising a chiropractic practice in a manner which is intended or has the tendency to deceive the public.
• (vi) Impersonating another health care practitioner.
• (vii) Offering, undertaking or agreeing to cure or treat a disease by a secret method, procedure, treatment or preparation or the treating of a human condition by a method, means or procedure which the licensee refuses to divulge to the Board upon demand of the Board.
• (xii) Ordering excessive tests, treatment or use of treatment and diagnostic facilities not reasonably warranted by the condition of the patient.

(2) Immoral conduct includes the following:

• (i) Misrepresentation or concealment of a material fact in obtaining a license to practice chiropractic or the reinstatement thereof.
• (ii) The commission of an act involving moral turpitude, dishonesty or corruption.

PA State Chiropractic Board Rules & Regulations
What can you do if you've been taken advantage of? Please make a complaint to the state chiropractic board. This is the email for the PA State Chiropractic Board: ST-CHIROPRACTIC@state.pa.us