News / Profession

500 Issues of Chiropractic: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Editorial Staff

Since January 1983, Dynamic Chiropractic has been publishing the latest news and information to help advance the chiropractic profession. There have been many challenges along the way, but 500 issues later, DC and the profession are stronger than ever!

On pages 40 and 41 of this issue, we present some of the top headlines from the past 21-plus years, pulled from the pages of DC for your review in timeline format. This timeline is essentially a history of where the chiropractic profession has been, and perhaps more importantly, where it is headed.

After all, with success and failure come the chance to grow - to learn from our mistakes, so that we do not repeat them, and to capitalize on our victories to help build a more promising tomorrow. To ignore the past is to resign ourselves to forever reaching in vain for the recognition we deserve and the opportunity to care for those who so desperately need our healing hands.

1983

January - DC launches (monthly)

April - DC exposes Calif. Medical Assn's plan to eliminate chiropractic

May - Michigan Court limits chiropractors' ability to diagnose, treat

1984

September - Access to lab findings: New York DCs win, Georgia DCs lose

December - Pepper bill introduced to outlaw all "unproven medical remedies"

1985

March - "Call a Doctor of Chiropractic" PR program launched

May - 1.8 million Elk families learn about chiropractic

1986

June - CCE puts NYCC on probation; students go on strike

August - 96.2% of ICA members say "unify U.S. chiropractic!"

1987

Jan. 1 - DC goes bimonthly

Feb. 1 - ACA signs Reader's Digest advertising contract

Sept. 15 - AMA found guilty of conspiracy in U.S. District Court

1988

Aug. 1 - ACA/ICA merger dead

Nov. 15 - DMP Sr. passes

1989

May 1 - NCMIC policyholders elect two write-in members

Oct. 15 - First WFC Chiropractic Council meeting

1990

Feb. 28 - U.S. Appeals Court upholds Wilk verdict - AMA guilty!

July 4 - British study shows chiropractic more effective than conventional treatment

1991

Oct. 11 - Rand study supports spinal manipulation for LBP

Dec. 5 - USDE votes against Straight Chiropractic Academic Standards Association (SCASA) re-recognition

1992

Feb. 28 - Mercy Guidelines published

May 22 - WHO to sponsor 1993 WFC Congress

1993

March 12 - Eisenberg study reveals 34% use alternative health

July 2 - WHO endorses chiropractic at 1993 World Chiropractic Congress

Sept. 24 - Washington Post puts chiropractic in the mainstream

1994

Feb. 25 - Million-dollar Canadian whiplash grant includes chiropractor investigator

Oct. 21 - State Farm guilty of discriminating against chiropractic

1995

Jan. 2 - AHCPR low back pain guidelines find chiropractic effective

Jan. 30 - Chiropractic centennial float seen around the world

April 24 - Congress recognizes chiropractic centennial

July 3 - RMIT Japan chiropractic college opens

1996

Feb. 12 - "Simple Beginnings" documentary airs on television nationwide

May 6 - Study shows chiropractic effective in managed care

Aug. 15 - First National Chiropractic Research Agenda Workshop

Sept. 1 - Rand reports applications for cervical spine manipulation

Nov. 18 - AMA CPT manual includes chiropractic

1997

Feb. 24 - ACC position papers on chiropractic paradigm

Aug. 25 - No more mandatory Medicare X-rays

Oct. 20 - Study shows chiropractic effective for cervicogenic headache

1998

Jan. 1 - Chiropractic philanthropists top $10 million donation mark

Nov. 16 - WFC sponsors conference on internationalizing chiropractic education

1999

Jan. 1 - Second Eisenberg study shows 42% use alternative care

Dec. 15 - Chiropractic found effective for infantile colic

2000

Jan. 1 - Chiropractic "only effective treatment" for chronic whiplash

May 29 - NBCE embraces change

Nov. 15 - Chiropractic made permanent benefit in U.S. military

Dec. 14 - Study: Training MDs to adjust doesn't work

2001

Jan. 1 - WFC philosophy meeting reaches international consensus

March 12 - Duke University study supports efficacy of chiropractic for headache

Nov. 30 - WHO task force on neck pain established

2002

March 11 - Court says PTs can't correct subluxations

July 15 - Life's accreditation denied by CCE

Nov. 30 - Wal-Mart axes chiropractic (largest private employer in U.S.)

2003

June 2 - Study finds unity in chiropractic

Oct. 20 - Calif. caps chiropractic workers' comp visits

Dec. 15 - Declaration of United Public Relations for chiropractic

2004

Jan. 1 - Congress approves chiropractic Medicare projects

Feb. 26 - Lewis Inquest ruling against Canadian chiropractor

May 6 - Chiropractic for U.S. veterans approved by Sec. Principi

June 17 - Appeals court dismisses Trigon case

July 2004
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