65-2871.
Persons deemed engaged in practice of chiropractic.
For the purpose of this act the following persons shall be deemed to be engaged in the practice of chiropractic: (a) Persons who examine, analyze and diagnose the human living body, and its diseases by the use of any physical, thermal or manual method and use the X-ray diagnosis and analysis taught in any accredited chiropractic school or college and (b) persons who adjust any misplaced tissue of any kind or nature, manipulate or treat the human body by manual, mechanical, electrical or natural methods or by the use of physical means, physiotherapy (including light, heat, water or exercise), or by the use of foods, food concentrates, or food extract, or who apply first aid and hygiene, but chiropractors are expressly prohibited from prescribing or administering to any person medicine or drugs in materia medica, or from performing any surgery, as hereinabove stated, or from practicing obstetrics.
History:
L. 1957, ch. 343, § 71; L. 1976, ch. 273, § 32; February 13.
Notes of Decisions
McKissick v. Frye, 876 P.2d 1371 (Kan. 1994).
“See K.S.A 65-2871. In Taylor, one of the issues on appeal was whether a chiropractor had been qualified to testify as an expert witness.”
Kansas State Bd. of Healing Arts v. Burwell, 616 P.2d 1084 (Kan. Ct. App. 1980).
· cites it 4× “Furthermore, the scope of chiropractic as defined by K.S.A. 1979 Supp. 65-2871 specifically prohibits the prescription or administration of “medicine or drugs in materia medica” and the performance of any surgery or obstetrics.”
Riley v. Kansas State Bd. of Healing Arts (Kan. Ct. App. 2020).
“65-2802; K.S.A. 65-2871. That practice is a privilege, not a right, and regulating that practice entails public policy determinations the Board makes: "[T]he practice of the healing arts is a privilege granted by legislative authority and is not a natural right of individuals,…”
Shine v. Kansas State Bd. of Healing Arts (Kan. Ct. App. 2021).
“" K.S.A. 65-2871. Any licensee under the KHAA may have his or her license "revoked, suspended or limited, or the licensee may be publicly or privately censured or placed under probationary conditions, or an application for a license or for reinstatement of a license may be…”
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