"Orthopractic." (new profession of the National Association for Chiropractic Medicine)

The National Association for Chiropractic Medicine (NACM), an organization of reform minded chiropractors that has divorced itself from the unscientific aspects of chiropractic now intends to abandon the chiropractic guild entirely and join a new profession called orthopractic. NACM has established a U.S. chapter of the Orthopractic Manipulation Society of North America (OMSNA), a Canada-based organization made up of science-based manipulation therapy practitioners.

Orthopractic therapy involves restoring a greater range of motion to the joints of the body through gentle and gradual mobilization, or more forceful manipulation. Among other things, orthopractors (1) …