Readjustment of childhood subluxations by chiropractors is covered by provincial health plans in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan. The governments of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and Quebec do not pay for pediatric chiropractic services.
Chiropractors define a subluxation as partially dislocated or misaligned vertebra.
Speaking at the Hospital for Sick Children, Dr. Murray Katz, a staff member at the Montreal Children's Hospital, said the subluxations some chiropractors say they commonly see in the X-rays of minors simply don't exist. This is all a sham. There are no bones out of place. His statements contradict a textbook used by the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto where many of Ontario's 2,300 chiropractors trained. This book, titled Pediatric Chiropractic and edited by Claudia Anrig and Gregory Plaugher, instructs chiropractic students how to treat children with subluxations.