RESEARCH ARTICLE Differentiating intraprofes

Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleBackground In an era associated with interdisciplinary care, intrapro-fessional strata and interprofessional conflict raise doubts for the equitable distribution of efficient and effective health care to the population. Differing intraprofessional paradigms within a health care discipline risk confusion among patients, referring providers and policy makers. Each constituency anticipates care delivery based on a generalized understanding of the discipline’s claims for ab-stract knowledge [1] and its intraprofessional unity. The chiropractic profession is a contender for jurisdic-tional control of the conservative spine care market [2,3]. Jurisdiction, as defined by Abbott in 1988 [1] is “the link between a profession and its work ” (p. 20). Control for jur-isdiction is related to claims that are played out in three basic arenas: 1) the immediate workplace, 2) among th