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![handle is hein.sag/sagwi0028 and id is 1 raw text is: STATE OF WISCONSIN
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
JAMESL WOYLE 114 East, State CAptol
ATFORNEY GENEPAL P.O. Box 7357
MadIoN. WI 53707.7157
Baicatta L. Bridge
Deputy Attorney General
OAG- 1-01
January 30, 2001
Ms. Marlene A. Cummings
Secretary
Department of Regulation and Licensing
1400 East Washington Avenue
Madison, WI 33702
De Ms. Cummings;
At the request of the Chiropractic Exaulning Board (Board), you ask my opinion
whether a person certified as a physical therapist or registered as a massage therapist and
bodyworker, and who is not licenRed as a chiropractor, may perform procedures identificd in
your letter as chiropractic adjustment, spinal manipulation, chiropractic manipulation or
spinal adjustment, and used interchangeably. Unfortunately, the generality of your questions
and the lack of definitional guidance in the statutes and administrative rules that pertain to the
professionals in question limits the conclusions I am able to draw. Although neither a physical
therapist nor a massage therapist may lawflly perform a chiropractic adjustment unless licensed
as a chiropractor, not every form of therapeutic touch involving the neck, back, joints or
connective tissues constitutes a chiroprictic adjustment.
Although the practice of chiropractie is defined in the statutes and the administrative
code, the essential terms in your inquiry are not defined by statute or rule. Section 446.01(2) of
the Wisconsin Statutes provides that the [p]ractice of chiropractic means:
(a) To examine into the fact, condition, or cause of departure from
complete health and proper condition of the human; to treat without the use of
drugs as defined in s. 450.01(10) or surgery; to counsel; to advise for the same for
the restoration and presrvation of health or to 'undertake, ofter, advettise,
announce or hold out in any manner to do any of the afbrementioned acts, for
compensation, direct or indiret or in expectation thereof; and
(b) To employ or apply chiropractic adjustments and the principles or
techniques of chiropractic science in the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of any
of the conditions described in s. 448.01(10).
The conditions described in section 448.01(10) are the fact, condition or cause of human health
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