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Chiropractic India

“Setting Standards for Chiropractic in India”

Chiropractic India started in 2022 in response to the tragic decrease in GENUINE CHIROPRACTORS in India as a result of the global pandemic.

This pioneer revolution originally started in 2004 when Dr. Michel Tetrault and Dr. Gary Auerbach, founding president of the World Federation of Chiropractic, were invited to Bangalore by Dr. Vasu Pandurangi, a UK Star of India recipient, to support his Bangalore Healthy City initiative, under a WHO grant. They were queried as to the ability of the chiropractic profession to provide spinal health promotion. Discussions between the Chiropractic Diplomatic Corps (CDC) and CAMHADD (Commonwealth Association for Mental Handicap and Developmental Disabilities) began. CAMHADD, established a Tri-Sector Preventive Health Care Foundation (CTPHF) as a non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the urban poor of Bangalore. An application for the federal government’s approval for the Doctor of Chiropractic course had been submitted to the appropriate government agency. Unfortunately, little interest at that time was accorded to this project. Current realities have prompted CDC and Chiropractic India to push forward in succeeding in this important matter.

Chiropractic Diplomatic Corps has become an authority on the International development of Chiropractic. This involves setting standards of practice and education, accreditation, and legislation. Chiropractic India has adopted and shares this vision for our nation to assure India’s availability and equal access to chiropractic services. 

Our principal focus is to increase the formation of new chiropractic colleges and legitimize the Chiropractic profession in India.

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Chiropractic Education Development In India

OBJECTIVES:

Chiropractic India,

Asian Institute of Scoliosis,

Sigma Body Labs

 – Founder & Chief Architect, 

Members of Board

Managing Committee

We Are Having A Vission

Our Vission

Chiropractic India is distinguished for advancing the development of the Chiropractic profession, education and standards in India

We Are In a Mission

Our Mission

The Mission of Chiropractic India is to establish University-based Chiropractic Educational programs that meet international standards.

Chiropractic Education in India and Philippines

The Chiropractic Diplomatic Corps’ (CDC) interest in the international development of the chiropractic profession began in 1997. This started with an initial effort to interest American and Canadian doctors to rotate into clinics in the Caribbean and Latin America to increase the availability of chiropractic services. But in 1998, after attending the World Federation of Chiropractors 1st Conference on Chiropractic Education in Manila, Philippines, we became aware of the extreme challenges to establish Chiropractic programs abroad, that is outside of western speaking countries, which came into focus. After years of studying the very slow global development of the Chiropractic profession it became more and more obvious that before any nation could establish and sustainability grow the profession, it must have a Chiropractic education program of its own.
 
The Education priority started from a 2004 World Health Organization referral to an NGO in Bangalore, India. More details are outlined in our report of that period in this ARTICLE. An initial proposal was made to the Karnataka government to establish a Chiropractic Fellowship for post MBBA certification. Parallel to that was an attempt to obtain approval from the federal government of a full Doctor of chiropractic diploma course. Unfortunately neither program was able to be implemented at that time.
 
The relationships with several Bangalore NGOs grew over the years that followed. It wasn’t until progress that the CDC had made in the Philippines that the program composing the curriculum and technology of education was formulated, and is now available for Indian universities.
 
With accreditation being sought from the Philippine Commission on Higher Education through a Manila University, India now moves forward to accredit the first diploma program of chiropractic education, starting with a BSc special chiropractic track, matriculating the graduate into the Masters on Chiropractic, which is a prerequisite for the Chiropractic Fellowship course.
 
A successful launching of the Philippine’s Bachelor, Masters and PhD course in Chiropractic opens the opportunity to send the future faculty for India to train and receive their Doctorate in Chiropractic in Manila to return and teach in the Indian universities.
 
Creating available manpower, a faculty pool for the teaching of chiropractors by qualified personnel, was the main stumbling block of the prior decade. Efforts were made to attract and recruit experienced chiropractic educators from around the world with no success because of two main reasons:
 
The population ratio of how many chiropractic providers is needed where the profession is established in wealthy nations is 1 per 5,000 to 10,000 population. Considering the lower Indian GDP in contrast to these other nations, it has been determined that in India’s economy today there is the need for 32,700 Doctors of Chiropractic. This will bring the ratio of one provider for every 43,000 Indians. Projecting an annual graduating class of 48 chiropractors, per institution it would take 100 years or 5 generations to meet that target of 50,000 chiropractors per population. Graduating a second cohort per year would speed that up. Also, this does not factor into the mix of AYUSH practitioners throughout the country.
  • The faculty shortage in the existing 46 Chiropractic institutions of education could not resolve the faculty manpower needed for India.
  • The cost of paying foreign faculty in an Indian university is untenable.
But with the Philippine program now available, the effort to select appropriate candidates to train in the Philippines is the best forward move. Therefore, support is needed to select the best candidates and send them to Manila where the cost of tuition and living is low. Financial support from India is also necessary to cover travel and living expenses of the student doctor/faculty for the program to succeed, intending to create the Chiropractic faculty pool for India.
 
The founding of Chiropractic India, an education and research charity, with the full technical and logistical support needed to finally come through on its promise to formally launch Chiropractic Education and research in India.

Signature Objective

“A profession cannot be taken seriously until it is sustainable.”

The only way to assure the endemic growth of a profession is to grow your own in each nation, in its own culture, language and economy. To assure sustainability, the education must be of high quality and provided by professional educators, embracing 21st Century technology and by inspired leadership. This is Chiropractic India’s primary purpose, to establish a strong foundation for Chiropractic Education in India.