Local chiros support uni clinic

by Simon Johnson

April 23, 2008

AMID controversy over the number of hours fifth year chiropractic students have to bill at Murdoch University (eMU News 21/4/08), professional chiropractors in the area have backed the uni’s chiropractic clinic.

Local chiro’, and graduate of the Murdoch chiropractic course Jenae Reid, supports the services provided by the uni’s clinic, saying it offers a “really high quality of diagnosis and treatment”.

 “I know they do very good work at Murdoch ...,” she said. “I think what they are doing is wonderful.”

When asked whether the competitively-priced services offered by the chiropractic students impinged on her own work, she said she “hasn’t really thought about it”.

“Your job as a chiropractor is to just treat the person in front of you”, she said.

Another practising chiro’, Arron Forrester, agreed, saying students had “to get started somewhere”.

“I was actually practising just up the road [from Murdoch],” Mr Forrester said. “I didn’t feel like I was in competition with them.”

eMU News sought a comment from the Muni’ chiro’ clinic on what role it saw itself playing in the community. However, clinic director Keith Simpson said he was under instruction not to comment until the head of Chiropractic and Sports Science, associate professor Brian Nook, returned from holiday on April 28.