Oppose SB 359

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Dear Senator ette:

As a licensed chiropractic physician these past 29 years, I have seen

many ill-considered and controversial health care issues promulgated by

various self-centered interest groups. This is one of them.

SB 359 seeks to reserve legal rights to a type of health care that PTs

do not own. It seeks to remove the rights of qualified practitioners to

continue providing what has been part of various legislatively defined

provider Practice Acts for many

many decades.

This bill seeks to give PTs unique rights while removing routine

physiotherapy

services long offered by DCs, MDs, and DOs. The bill authorizes PTs

ONLY to be able to advertise, promote, provide or offer such treatment

or seek payment for traditional physiological

therapeutics, otherwise known as 'physiotherapy'. This bill seeks to

identify and limit physiotherapy as being available

under the direction of a lesser qualified provider group than licensed

physicians.

This family of adjunctive health care services has been part of the

curriculum of Western States Chiropractic College for decades prior to

the establishment of the entire "PT" profession. These services have

been a well-defined

part of the the licensing act for DCs for nearly 90 years. Academic

training of DCs is far in excess of the PT core program. Physiotherapy

has long been

part of the DC clinical training program.

I seek your comments and urge your vote against SB

359.

yours in health,

Jack Pedersen DC

541-367-2105

Sweet Home, Oregon