IDAHO CHIROPRACTORS and NUTRITION: Scope of Practice

For readers interested in information about how Chiropractors are licensed to utilize nutrition in caring for clients, following are 2 excerpts:
1) from the Chiropractic Practice Act and
2) from the Rules from the Idaho Chiropractic Board on Scope of Practice.

1) TITLE 54
PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
CHAPTER 7

CHIROPRACTIC PRACTICE ACT

54-704.Chiropractic practice. Chiropractic practice and procedures which may be employed by physicians are as follows:
(1) The system of specific adjustment or manipulation of the articulations and tissues of the body; the investigation, examination and clinical diagnosis of conditions of the human body and the treatment of the human body by the application of manipulative, manual, mechanical, physiotherapeutic or clinical nutritional methods and may include the use of diagnostic X-rays.



2) IDAHO ADMINISTRATIVE CODE IDAPA 24.03.01 - Rules of the State Board Bureau of Occupational Licenses of Chiropractic Physicians Page 3 IAC 2008

020.SCOPE OF PRACTICE (RULE 20).
Clinical nutritional methods as referenced in Section 54-704, Idaho Code, include, but are not limited to the clinical use, administration, recommendation, compounding, prescribing, selling, and distributing vitamins, minerals, botanical medicine, herbals, homeopathic, phytonutrients, antioxidants, enzymes, and glandular extracts, durable and non-durable medical goods and devices in all their forms. (4-2-08)

Full text is available at the website of the Idaho State Board of Chiropractic Physicians: http://ibol.idaho.gov/chi.htm

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