FW: Our scope of practice / dry needling

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Dr. Medlin,

It is a good point. What we need to learn

and remember (and please some of the more experienced DCs chime in here) is

that our Oregon

school was started in 1904. I don’t know if DCs were here before that

(Lester Lamm, the historian, tell us) but our practice and our laws that have

been tested were for us to be PCPs. We can deliver babies. We can do minor

surgery. We can sign death certificates. Somehow, perhaps when the DC/ND

schools split, we painted ourselves and then others painted us in to a corner.

But, this is now and today, and we need to expand back into our laws and into

our intended scope of practice. We have to do this because the public wants

this, the medical home concept needs it, there is a shortage of PCPs and we need

to survive as a viable profession. We must stretch back into our laws. The

issue with dry needling was there for us to take. We did not have to go to the legislature

and ask for a change in our laws as it was there all along it just needed

vision to see it. What else is there in our laws already?

I wonder why the DC/ND schools

didn’t just merge in to one school? If that had happened things today

would be very different for us here in Oregon.

s. fuchs dc

From: ph Medlin

[mailto:spinetree@...]

Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011

9:41 AM

Sharron Fuchs

Cc:

Subject: Re: Re:

Dry needling

Exactly my point.

ph Medlin D.C.

From: Sharron

Fuchs

Sent: Thursday,

January 20, 2011 6:06 PM

Cc:

Subject: Re: [From

OregonDCs] Re: Dry needling

Wrong DCs do rhoids.

Sharron

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 20, 2011, at 5:16 PM, " ph Medlin " <spinetree@...>

wrote:

Jack of all trades, perhaps eventually master of

none. We all do everything it seems here in Oregon. Provider identity is becoming hazy. One

would think that Spinal Manipulation would be the identity of Chiropractors,

Needling the identity of Accupuncture, Fascial Manipulation that of Rolfing,

Natural Medicine that of ND's, Hemmorrhoids that of some unfortunate MD........

I guess for a state who hates " scope of practice " bills, this is what

you get.

ph Medlin D.C.

From: sharron

Sent: Thursday,

January 20, 2011 2:35 PM

Subject: [From

OregonDCs] Re: Dry needling

That horse is out of the barn and waayy down the road.

.. PTs do manipulation and we are not going to be able to change that.

s. fuchs dc

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> Nice work all, this will be a great therapy for us to have to help

patients. In the same vein, I'd be interested in the opinions of the listees on

comparisions and contrasts to how this process relates to the desire of PTs to

manipulate. Are we DCs, in our opposition to PTs manipulating the spine, as

poorly informed as the LAcs and NDs who were in opposition to us dry needling?

Just curious...

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> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:14:49 -0800

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> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:49:15 -0800

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> The board has determined dry needling to be in our scope of practice ! The

training , informed consent and some things I forget will be worked out in the

Rules committee. Thank you all for your help and support. The UWS can take

great credit for it's effort and vision as can Dr. Fishkin DC from land who along with

other visionaries offers this to us. I look forward to full integration of this

with other myofascial techniques.

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