Diversified is the most widely used form of SM As Christensen Kollasch state 96 of chiropractors use Diversified most of them also use other SM techniques Clearly SM is directly related to chiropractic If chiropractic is a form of SM then SM is directly related to chiropractic Whether chiropractic SM differs from non chiropractic SM is irrelevant to this topic The topic is whether SM is directly related to chiropractic Which it clearly is The Ernst 2008 quote is another quote supporting this position Our last few comments in this subthread have not made any progress Please feel free to have WP THELASTWORD