Acupuncture in Colorado - Politics
What do you look for when you look for a licensed acupuncturist, Colorado?
Did you know. . .
In Colorado a Chiropractor can practice acupuncture with only 100 hours of training! In reality chiropractors don’t even need that many hours, really! A chiropractor, and certain other health care workers, can take a weekend class that will fulfill all 100 hours. Sure, they have to do some case studies after that but, come one?!?!?! A weekend course! How does that equate to 100 hours of training? Must be some new math that the Colorado legislation in Denver pulled out.
I know you think I’m kidding. I wish I were. When the licensing laws were passed for acupuncture in the state of Colorado the chiropractic board somehow got the legislators in Denver to agree to a 500 hour requirement for Chiropractors to practice acupuncture. Okay?!?! How did we get to 100 hours?
It turns out that the infinite wisdom in Denver allowed the chiropractic board to regulate chiropractors for acupuncture. In other words, the chiropractors don’t answer to the state to practice acupuncture?!?! Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Apparently the chiropractors thought that 500 hours was way too much work and somehow the chiropractic board agreed. What happened? They lowered the hours to 100. I guess they’re a smart bunch and can pick up anything. . . kind of like MD’s.
My big questions is, how on earth does a weekend class equal 100 hours? I still haven’t heard a good explanation of that one. Isn’t that a little ridicules? Do you think a Chiropractor would allow you to crack his/her spine after a weekend class? No way on this earth!
If you think that’s bad, just hold on cause it gets so much better.
In their infinite wisdom the Colorado legislatures thought that MD’s are apparently omniscient and don’t need to take any training to practice acupuncture. I’m serious! Allopathic Medical Doctors in the state of Colorado can practice acupuncture with zero hours of training! Do you think that an MD would let you practice allopathic medicine on him/her with zero hours of training? I’m sure you might do just as good but they would throw you in jail for even thinking about it!
I don’t even want to talk about the other “health care” professionals that need little to no training to practice acupuncture. I guess the Colorado state legislature thinks only Acupuncturist need training to practice acupuncture?!?!? Everyone else can do it with little or no training and they keep passing more legislation allowing more health care practitioners to practice it.
Denver is a huge metropolitan city and Boulder, one of THE alternative mecca’s in the United States, resides close by. In fact, Colorado as a whole has some of the highest numbers for alternative medical practitioners. So, what in the *&%! went on at the level of legislation in Colorado when it came to acupuncture? Aren’t they there to protect the public?!
I guess I must be the foolish one! I found that True Acupuncture was a very difficult thing to understand let alone apply, but I guess Chiropractors and Medical Doctors in Colorado are smarter than the rest of us. I think we should allow them to do anything and everything they want, don’t you?
They obviously know everything. . . so why bother with the training!
What do you think Colorado? Should just anybody be allowed to stick needles in you?
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