Doctors have slammed a national move by chiropractors to resume spinal manipulation on babies and children despite a report recommending an end to the practice.
Chiropractors have given themselves the green light to resume manipulating the spines of babies following a four-year interim ban supported by the country’s health ministers.The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners hit out at the decision, saying there was no evidence supporting the spinal manipulation of babies and children and that the practice should be outlawed.
In March 2019, the Chiropractic Board of Australia announced an interim ban on the spinal manipulation of children under two, following public outcry over a video of a Melbourne chiropractor holding a two-week-old baby upside down. A follow-up review last year by Cochrane Australia, commissioned by the national healthcare watchdog AHPRA , reached the same conclusion.
Neurosurgical Society of Australasia Board executive Dr Patrick Lo, who is also the Victorian chair of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, said children were particularly vulnerable to injuries from spinal manipulation. Lo said he had treated young adults who had suffered disc prolapses following spinal manipulations performed by chiropractors. He said some of his colleagues had treated patients who had experienced strokes following spinal manipulation.Lo will raise his concerns about the new guidelines for chiropractors at an upcoming meeting with Safer Care Victoria.showing a Melbourne chiropractor flexing a newborn baby’s back before pressing firmly on her spine to produce a cracking sound.
A spokeswoman for Safer Care Victoria said while its review identified very little evidence of patient harm occurring in Australia, “it was clear that spinal manipulation in children is not wholly without risk”.
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