2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 71-177 — Chiropractic practice, defined.

Section 71-177
Chiropractic practice, defined.

For purposes of the Uniform Licensing Law, the practice of chiropractic is defined as being one or a combination of the following, without the use of drugs or surgery: (1) The diagnosis and analysis of the living human body for the purpose of detecting ailments, disorders, and disease by the use of diagnostic X-ray, physical and clinical examination, and routine procedures including urine analysis; or (2) the science and art of treating human ailments, disorders, and disease by locating and removing any interference with the transmission and expression of nerve energy in the human body by chiropractic adjustment, chiropractic physiotherapy, and the use of exercise, nutrition, dietary guidance, and colonic irrigation. The use of X-rays beyond the axial skeleton shall be solely for diagnostic purposes and shall not expand the practice of chiropractic to include the treatment of human ailments, disorders, and disease not permitted when the use of X-rays was limited to the axial skeleton.

Source:

Laws 1927, c. 167, § 76, p. 474

C.S.1929, § 71-1101

R.S.1943, § 71-177

Laws 1983, LB 142, § 1

Laws 1990, LB 348, § 1

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska