Licencia: Chiropractor

MS Board of Chiropractic Examiners sitio externo

16328 West Main Street

P.O. Box 775

Louisville, MS 39339

(662) 773-4478

General Terms and Definitions: (1) The practice of chiropractic involves the analysis of any interference with normal nerve transmission and expression, and the procedure preparatory to and complementary to the correction thereof, by adjustment and/or manipulation of the articulations of the vertebral column and its immediate articulations for the restoration and maintenance of health without the use of drugs or surgery. (2) The chiropractic adjustment and/or manipulation of the articulations of the human body may include manual adjustments and/or manipulations and adjustments and/or manipulations by means of electrical and/or mechanical manual devices. Chiropractors licensed under this chapter may also use in conjunction with adjustments and/or manipulations of the spinal structures electrical therapeutic modalities which induce heat or electrical current beneath the skin, including therapeutic ultrasound, galvanism, diathermy and electromuscular stimulation and other procedures taught by a chiropractic college approved by the Council on Chiropractic Education, its successor or an equivalent accrediting agency. (3) Chiropractors licensed under this chapter may utilize those electric therapeutic modalities described in subsection (2) of this section only after the chiropractor has completed a course of study containing a minimum of one hundred twenty (120) hours of instruction in the proper utilization of those procedures in accordance with the guidelines set forth by the Council on Chiropractic Education, its successor, or an equivalent accrediting agency, and is qualified and so certified in that proper utilization. (4) Chiropractors shall not prescribe or administer medicine to patients, perform surgery, practice obstetrics or osteopathy. Chiropractors shall be authorized to recommend, dispense or sell vitamins or food supplements. Applying for Licensure: Doctor (Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine) Qualifications to be licensed in Mississippi: 1. Adult of good moral character, 2. Graduate of Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) approved Chiropractic College, 3. Sixty (60) hours of undergraduate college work or pre-chiropractic college work, 4. Passage of Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and Physical Therapy of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners examination, Process for licensure for the chiropractor: 1. Request an application from the Executive Secretary of the Board. There is a $100.00 application fee which must be paid before an application can be mailed. This fee must be paid in a money order or cashier’s check. Send request letter, along with application fee, to: Board of Chiropractic Examiners, P.O. Drawer 775, Louisville, MS 39339. 2. An application packet will be sent to the applicant. Other materials needed are: a. Official transcript of pre-chiropractic hours from the college, b. Official transcript of chiropractic college hours from the college, c. Certified copy of chiropractic college diploma, d. Completed application, e. Payment of $200.00 examination fee (money order or cashier’s check), f. Official copy of National Board scores from National Board of Chiropractic Examiners. 3. Pass a jurisprudence examination in the state on the state chiropractic law and rules and regulations of the Mississippi Board of Chiropractic Examiners.