The Society does not believe that spinal manipulation can he used to treat nor to alter the course in any way of conditions in infants and children such as infantile colic, skin eczema, learning disorders, ear infections, respiratory tract infections, strabismus of the eyes, asthma, any infections disease process, any state of decreased immunity. Whatever effect manual therapy may have on the involuntary or the autonomic nervous system, the Society does not believe this affects in any specific way conditions such as bacterial or viral infections, cancer, states of decreased immunity, the common cold, diabetes, arthritis, bursitis, heart disease, high blood pressure, menstrual cramps, liver disease or urinary tract infections. Orthopractic practitioners do not claim to treat nor do they claim to alter the course in any way of any of these conditions. It is unethical to manipulate a joint which is essentially normal. The Society believes that immunization is the only safe and effective way to prevent many serious diseases such as polio, measles, mumps, rubella, meningitis, hepatitis A and B, diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus.
Orthopractic practitioners promote the benefits of immunization.
The Society considers it unethical to encourage personal testimony in the public media to promote the benefits of treatment. Therapy should only be promoted by quoting scientific studies. The consumer can he easily fooled by personal testimony.