Chiropractic is booming around the world. With that boom come many problems that have ramifications for the entire profession. We cannot live in isolation and expect our profession to grow with the respect and professionalism it should have and our patients deserve. This was demonstrated by the program dedicated to the New Zealand report 20 years later, which showed the impact of that small country and what significant conclusions were reached by the commission assigned to investigate chiropractic. Its role is increasing in importance each year.
Many countries have less than ten chiropractors in the entire country.
There are now more chiropractic colleges outside the U.S. than within its borders. The idea for the WFC began a decade ago, and ACA can be proud to have been one of the original organizations that helped give birth to a worldwide organization designed to meet the needs and challenges of an exploding chiropractic world in need of structure and function. Chiropractic is not licensed in many countries. Those people then go out and call themselves chiropractors. In Japan, there are now approximately 20,000 to 30,000 such laypeople claiming to be chiropractors.