Commentary

Chiropractors have historically struggled among them-selves, as well as tussled before the public, with their identity crisis. Today they find themselves orphans in that stretch between mainstream and alternative health care. Professionally, most chiropractors would like to be viewed as a collaborative alliance with traditional main-stream providers. There are, however, numerous factional groups of chiropractors who are reluctant to form such a union, but entertain strong feelings and attraction to be al-ternative care providers. Internally the chiropractic profes-sion battles with fear and uncertainty as to which group to establish a courtship with. Historically chiropractic’s ancestry of bonesetters and magnetic healers, have yet to experience the full embrace of medicine. The medical fraternity has, for the most part