2009 Rhode Island Code
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
CHAPTER 5-30 - Chiropractic Physicians
§ 5-30-1 - "Chiropractic medicine" defined.
SECTION 5-30-1
§ 5-30-1 "Chiropractic medicine" defined. – For the purpose of this chapter, the practice of "chiropractic medicine" is defined as the science and art of mechanical and material healing as follows: the employment of a system of palpating and adjusting the articulations of the human spinal column and its appendages, by hand and electro-mechanical appliances, and the employment of corrective orthopedics and dietetics for the elimination of the cause of disease; provided, that chiropractic physicians may not write prescriptions for drugs for internal medication nor practice major surgery as defined in chapter 37 of this title.
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