The New Zealand Chiropractors’ Association has endorsed international calls for a dramatic shift in the way that society manages low back pain. Chiropractor and NZCA spokesperson Dr Jenna Duehr explains: `The evidence is clear that chiropractors .
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 2:21 pm
The New Zealand Chiropractors’ Association (NZCA)
welcomes the call in a major new report by the New Zealand
Institute for Economic Research (NZIER) for publicly funded
access to chiropractic care for spinal and neural conditions
to be made available to New Zealanders with chronic
conditions.
The report “Hidden In Plain Sight:
Optimising the allied health professions for better, more
sustainable integrated care” was commissioned by Allied
Health Aotearoa New Zealand.
Among the NZIER’s
wide-ranging recommendations for a greater role for allied
health professions in improving the health and wellbeing of
New Zealanders, the report highlights that chiropractic