Table 6 Most pressing issues in Germany*

Recognition/Protection

• A school and official licensure

• 3rd party payers

• Chiropractic licensing law

• Chiropractors must practice under Heilpraktiker license and compete with chiropraktikers (heilpraktikers) plus MD's who are allowed to practice "chirotherapy."

• Differentiate between other manipulative therapists

• Governmental recognition

• Laws providing protection/recognition

• Legislation – clear defined handbook

• Official acknowledgement of the profession

• Only chiropractors should be allowed to do chiropractic therapy

• Recognition

• Recognition from other health care professions

• To be accepted as a profession other than heilpraktikers

• To protect the name/title of chiropractor

• To establish it as its own profession and to regulate chiropractic

• Legal recognition

Education

• Chiropractic being taught in seminars to non-chiro students

• Professional education

Publicity

• Bad press

• Demand by the needing public – education and not jumping emotionally toward medically "acceptable" manipulative therapy

• Identity

• Patient Education.

• Public information/education about the profession

• Raise awareness

Research

• A coordinated center with true PhD researchers working with Chiropractors.

• Evaluating Chiropractic care in general

• Show that multiple adjustments are not creating hyper-mobility

• Side effects of chiropractic treatment efficacy

• Strokes