This document comprises guidelines on basic training and safety in chiropractic. Part I of the guidelines covers basic requirements for different training programmes, each one designed for trainees with various educational backgrounds, including non-medical, physicians wishing to use chiropractic and primary health care workers.
This part provides a reference for the establishment of various training programmes, particularly where no formal education degree has been established.
Part II of the guidelines deals with the safety of spinal manipulative therapy and the contraindications to its use.
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On 7 December 2023, WHO released a new guideline titled ‘WHO guideline for non-surgical management of chronic primary low back pain in adults in primary and community care settings’. The purpose of the guideline is to provide evidence-based recommendations on nonsurgical interventions for chronic primary LBP (CPLBP) in adults, including older people, that can be delivered in primary and community care settings to improve CPLBP-related health and well-being outcomes.
The target audience is health workers of all disciplines working in the primary and community care settings. In this context, the guideline is intended to be discipline neutral. The guidelines will be of use to clinical staff including medical doctors, nurses, allied health workers including chiropractors, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, pharmacists, psychologists and community health workers, as well as public health programme and system managers.
These latest WHO Guidelines affirmed that non-surgical physical interventions, including Spinal Manipulative Therapy (SMT) rendered by chiropractors, may be offered as routine care in most contexts for adults with CPLBP, with or without spine-related leg pain.
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