- The AACP believes that the integrative approach to healthcare optimizes resources and serves the patient well. No one theory is complete. The patient is best served with timely, direct access to healthcare, safe and conservative diagnostic and treatment protocols, within the context of an integrated setting, which includes the chiropractic physician.
- The AACP promotes the practice of chiropractic medicine as an integral part of primary care and promotes clinical management utilizing diagnostic procedures, science and research based clinical outcomes and best practices as the methods of patient management.
- The AACP believes that chiropractic physicians should not have arbitrary restrictions placed on their scopes of practice, but should be able to practice within the context of their training as established in the Standards set by the Council on Chiropractic Education.
- The AACP believes that generally accepted standards of public safety and training have been implemented for allopathic methods, and as such have been determined to be safe and effective. Chiropractic physicians using allopathic or chiropractic methods of care, should at a minimum, adhere to the generally accepted safety and utilization standards, protocols and procedures, thereby insuring the public health, welfare and safety.
