In 2008, after repeated polling of its membership, ACS endorsed the ICA Best Practices for the State of Arizona chiropractic profession. Here are the links to the full documents:

ICA Best Practices & Practice Guidelines Homepage

ICA Best Practices & Practice Guidelines Table of Contents

Section I: Preliminaries

Preface: Background

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Legal Definitions, Authorities, Ethics, Responsibilities

Chapter 3: Choice of Chiropractic Technique: The Doctor’s Right to Choose Under State Laws

Chapter 4: Risk Benefit Ratio for Chiropractic Care

Chapter 5: Costs of Chiropractic Care

Chapter 6: Routine Plain Film Radiography is Standard of Practice

Section II: ICA Best Practices

Chapter 7: Outcome Measures: reliability & Validity

Chapter 8: Methods: The Search for, Levels of, Ratings of, and Grading of Evidence

Chapter 9: Modalities: Ancillary & Preparatory to the Adjustment

Chapter 10: Best Practices: Organizing the Chiropractic Clinical Evidence

Section III: ICA’s Practice Guidelines

Chapter 11: Practice Guidelines: Frequency & Duration Recommendations

Chapter 12: Dissemination, Implementation, and Periodic Review

Appendix 1: Glossary of Common Chiropractic Terms & Abbreviations

Appendix II: References for Tables 1-6 in Chapter 10

ICA Position Paper on CCGPP, 2006

CCGPP Homepage

The x-ray portion of the ICA Best Practices merited a section of its own, also endorsed by ACS:

PCCRP - Practicing Chiropractors' Committee on Radiology Protocols
Source: www.PCCRP.org
PCCRP is the acronym for Practicing Chiropractors’ Committee for Radiology Protocols.

ACUPUNCTURE ISSUES IN CHIROPRACTIC

American Chiropractic Association Healthy Living October 2008 on Acupuncture: This is directly from the Journal of the American Chiropractic Association. It lists a number of conditions for which acupuncture may be used including osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, asthma, dental pain and labor pain. No references to the literature are provided.