Advancing Diversity as We Advance the Chiropractic Profession A Joint Report from the American Black Chiropractic Association and the International Chiropractors Association July 2019 Quentin M. Brisco, DC President American Black Chiropractic Association Winston Carhee, DC Immediate Past President American Black Chiropractic Association Stephen P. Welsh, DC, FICAP President International Chiropractors Association Beth Clay Director of Government Relations International Chiropractors Association American Black Chiropractic Association P.O. Box 725013 Atlanta GA 31139 Phone: +470.588.0856 Fax: +404-699-0988 URL: https://abcachiro.com/ International Chiropractors Association 6400 Arlington Blvd., Ste. 800 Falls Church, VA 22042 Phone: 703-528-5000 Fax: 703-528-5023 URL: http://chiropractic.org
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Advancing Diversity
as We Advance the Chiropractic Profession
A Joint Report from the
American Black Chiropractic Association
and the
International Chiropractors Association
July 2019
Quentin M. Brisco, DC
President
American Black Chiropractic
Association
Winston Carhee, DC
Immediate Past President
American Black Chiropractic
Association
Stephen P. Welsh, DC, FICAP
President
International Chiropractors
Association
Beth Clay
Director of Government Relations
International Chiropractors
Association
American Black Chiropractic Association P.O. Box 725013 Atlanta GA 31139 Phone: +470.588.0856 Fax: +404-699-0988 URL: https://abcachiro.com/
International Chiropractors Association 6400 Arlington Blvd., Ste. 800 Falls Church, VA 22042 Phone: 703-528-5000 Fax: 703-528-5023 URL: http://chiropractic.org
suggest that injustice perception represents an important risk factor for musculoskeletal
pain outcomes.”
The first of its kind appraisal of chronic low back pain found African American patients
found higher rates of depression and pain-related disability, and higher pain intensity with
a link between perceived injustice and worse outcomes.18 There is also a noted racial
disparity in treating pain.19-21
When we look at the interconnectedness between racial disparities in health
outcomes and life expectancy; cultural competence, the lack of diversity in the
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chiropractic profession and the CCE accreditation process; it is clear we must
make establishing and implementing the goal to achieve racial diversity within the
chiropractic profession through increased diversity on our chiropractic campuses.
As a nation, and as a professional community, we have more in common than we have
differences; however, we have for too long ignored that fact. ABCA and ICA seek to affect
change in this regard. Among the ICA’s value statements is the following:
Equitability: We advocate for a healthcare system that is just, fair, and free from
discrimination. We believe that all people should have equal access to services that
promote health and well-being, including chiropractic care. We support the inclusion of all
licensed health providers that are practicing within the scope and standards of their
profession and advocate for compensation that is commensurate and fair for services
provided.
As the ICA vision statement provides, ICA seeks to empower humanity to optimal life
expression, health and human potential through specific and scientific chiropractic care.
We work to accomplish this through our mission to protect and promote chiropractic
throughout the world as a distinct health care profession predicated upon its unique
philosophy, science, and art of subluxation detection and correction.
Likewise, the ABCA mission, “Integrating and improving outcomes for persons of color
entering the profession of Doctor of Chiropractic” is implemented through its constituted
purposes which include:
• To recruit, encourage and support black persons to study chiropractic.
• To encourage camaraderie and leadership amongst black chiropractic doctors,
instructors, technicians and students.
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• To assist chiropractic colleges in recruiting qualified black students and faculty
members.
• To help advance the science, philosophy, and art of chiropractic, and to improve
the standards in chiropractic professional knowledge.
Conclusion: There is an urgent need to increase diversity in the chiropractic profession
to help our profession more accurately represent our communities. To achieve this goal,
changes are needed. These changes include changes in recruitment, in campus
environment, in faculty diversity, and in the accreditation process in order to
accommodate innovation at our chiropractic institutions. The Department of Education is
now calling upon accrediting agencies to be more flexible to “no longer rely on simplistic
outcomes metrics to evaluate institutional quality, when these metrics are more reliable
proxies for institutional selectivity and student socioeconomic advantage than academic
quality”. The chiropractic profession knows the value of chiropractic care. If we are to
help everyone in our nation to have the opportunity to benefit from chiropractic care, we
need to work together to advance our profession by advancing diversity in our schools.
Taking these courageous steps lays the foundation for a better health care system
tomorrow.
The ABCA and the ICA encourage the CCE to embrace increasing the diversity of our
profession and work in a supporting role to the chiropractic educational institutions, to
innovate the process. A reconsideration of the current “hardlines” established in Policy
56 as a mandate is needed. ABCA and ICA feel strongly that no chiropractic education
institution that is focused on recruiting minority students and ensuring a quality education
should have its accreditation threatened based solely on the student outcome measures
of Policy 56. We invite a collaboration with the CCE and the entire profession to address
the needs of all members of our society with a better health care system. A first step to
this is increasing the diversity of our students.
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In 1993, Dr. Bobby Westbrooks the founder of the ABCA was quoted by Dynamic
Chiropractic: "While chiropractic struggled for its existence as a profession, black people
had to struggle for membership in the profession founded on the back of a black man."
Westbrooks was referring to Harvey Lillard, a black man whose hearing was restored
through chiropractic and is considered the first chiropractic patient.
We cannot just talk the talk; it is time to act. To quote the ICA’s founder, Dr. B.J. Palmer,
“Throw away your wishbone, straighten up your backbone, stick out your jawbone and go
to it.”
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