Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
(a) Scope of Practice.
(1) A duly licensed chiropractor may
manipulate and adjust the spinal column and other joints of the human body and
in the process thereof a chiropractor may manipulate the muscle and connective
tissue related thereto.
(2) As part
of a course of chiropractic treatment, a duly licensed chiropractor may use all
necessary mechanical, hygienic, and sanitary measures incident to the care of
the body, including, but not limited to, air, cold, diet, exercise, heat,
light, massage, physical culture, rest, ultrasound, water, and physical therapy
techniques in the course of chiropractic manipulations and/or
adjustments.
(3) Other than as
explicitly set forth in section
10(b) of the Act,
a duly licensed chiropractor may treat any condition, disease, or injury in any
patient, including a pregnant woman, and may diagnose, so long as such
treatment or diagnosis is done in a manner consistent with chiropractic methods
and techniques and so long as such methods and treatment do not constitute the
practice of medicine by exceeding the legal scope of chiropractic practice as
set forth in this section.
(4) A
chiropractic license issued in the State of California does not authorize the
holder thereof:
(A) to practice surgery or to
sever or penetrate tissues of human beings, including, but not limited to
severing the umbilical cord;
(B) to
deliver a human child or practice obstetrics;
(C) to practice dentistry;
(D) to practice optometry;
(E) to use any drug or medicine included in
materia medica;
(F) to use a
lithotripter;
(G) to use ultrasound
on a fetus for either diagnostic or treatment purposes; or
(H) to perform a
mammography.
(5) A duly
licensed chiropractor may employ the use of vitamins, food supplements, foods
for special dietary use, or proprietary medicines, if the above substances are
also included in section
4057
of the Business and Professions Code, so long as such substances are not
included in materia medica as defined in section
13
of the Business and Professions Code.
The use of such substances by a licensed chiropractor in the
treatment of illness or injury must be within the scope of the practice of
chiropractic as defined in section
7 of the Act.
(6) Except as specifically provided in
section 302(a)(4), a duly
licensed chiropractor may make use of X-ray and thermography equipment for the
purposes of diagnosis but not for the purposes of treatment. A duly licensed
chiropractor may make use of diagnostic ultrasound equipment for the purposes
of neuromuscular skeletal diagnosis.
(7) A duly licensed chiropractor may only
practice or attempt to practice or hold himself or herself out as practicing a
system of chiropractic. A duly licensed chiropractor may also advertise the use
of the modalities authorized by this section as a part of a course of
chiropractic treatment, but is not required to use all of the diagnostic and
treatment modalities set forth in this section. A chiropractor may not hold
himself or herself out as being licensed as anything other than a chiropractor
or as holding any other healing arts license or as practicing physical therapy
or use the term "physical therapy" in advertising unless he or she holds
another such license.
(b)
Definitions.
(1) Board. The term "board"
means the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
(2) Act. The term "act" means the
Chiropractic Initiative Act of California as amended.
Note: The Chiropractic Initiative Act of
California is listed in West's Annotated California Codes following section
1000
of the Business and Professions Code, and in Deering's California Codes
Annotated as an appendix to the Business and Professions Code.
(3) Duly licensed chiropractor. The term
"duly licensed chiropractor" means any chiropractor in the State of California
holding an unrevoked certificate to practice chiropractic, as that term is
defined in section
7 of the Act, that has been issued
by the board.
1. Renumbering
of subsection (b) to subsection (c) filed 7-7-78; effective thirtieth day
thereafter (Register 78, No. 27). For prior history, see Register 65, No.
24.
2. Redesignation of section
318 as subsection
302(b) filed
7-7-78; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 78, No. 27).
3.
Repealer and new section filed 8-4-87; operative 9-3-87 (Register 87, No.
32).
4. Change without regulatory effect of subsection (b)(2)
(Register 88, No. 23).
5. Amendment of subsection (a) filed 4-4-91
as an emergency; operative 4-4-91 (Register 91, No. 17). A Certificate of
Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 8-3-91 or emergency language will be
repealed by operation of law on the following day.
6. Amendment of
subsection (a) with amendments refiled 6-3-91 as an emergency; operative 6-3-91
(Register 91, No. 34). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL
by 10-1-91 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the
following day.
7. Certificate of Compliance as to 6-3-91 order
transmitted to OAL 9-27-91 and filed 10-23-91 (Register 92, No.
24).
8. Change without regulatory effect amending subsection (a)(5)
filed 1-12-2000 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2000, No. 2).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
1000-
4(b)
and
1000-
10(a),
Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections
1000-
5
and
1000-
7,
Business and Professions Code.
