Chris Anderson DC – Investigation & Review of Misleading and Unsubstantiated Claims about the Efficacy of Treatment
We recently reported on the chaos caused by the British Columbia College of Chiropractors adoption of an “acceptable evidence” policy and their actions in going after chiropractors who they deem have violated it and threatening to do more of the same.
After reviewing the Policy and the standards of conduct for chiropractors in British Columbia we undertook a review of the websites of the members of the Board of the College of Chiropractors to see if their own websites would meet their Policy.
We found violations of their own Policy and we report on those violations found.
Chris Anderson DC
Chris Anderson DC serves on the Board of the College of Chiropractors of British Columbia and is a graduate of Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College having been licensed since 1997.
***All of the website content discussed herein was live as of October 15, 2018***
Dr. Anderson’s website is riddled with violations of the Board’s Policy on Claims Efficacy.
On his website, Anderson states he offers:
“. . . a variety of approaches from classic chiropractic manipulative techniques and instrument adjusting to laser therapy, therapeutic ultrasound, muscle energy techniques and others.”
Hmmmm. Is Anderson going to try and convince anyone that there is research to the level required by his own Board and its own Policies for laser, therapeutic ultrasound and muscle energy techniques? We’d love to see the systematic reviews of the literature on any of those. And weren’t passive physical therapy modalities shown long ago to foster dependence on the part of the patient – doesn’t sound very “patient centered” to me.
But those claims are the least of them. Anderson claims to have a magical cure for spinal stenosis and he’s not afraid to make that claim on his website and to the impressionable public.
According to Anderson under the heading “How Do You Treat Stenosis” he says he:
“. . . treats Stenosis with a specific protocol of mobilizations combined with a specific set of exercises which you can do at home.”
So he has a special protocol for treating stenosis? Has it been researched? Are there RCT’s for it? Has it been replicated many times by independent researchers?
If that claim of superiority isn’t enough – how about his ability to cure sciatica? Imagine all those health care providers from orthopedists to neurosurgeons who have been struggling to find the answer for sciatica. Well, Anderson has had it all along!
In fact so proud is he of his unique abilities that he put that claim front and center on the Home Page of his website so it’s the very first thing anyone visiting will see:
“Chris Anderson Chiropractic in Nanaimo Treatment for Back Pain & Sciatica”
How is he allowed to so blatently violate the Board’s Policy?
We look forward to Dr. Anderson providing all the evidence he has to support his claims and that also meet the standards of the Board’s Efficacy Claims Policy.
See below for the investigations of other Board Members
CLICK HERE for screenshots of the Board members' Websites
CLICK HERE to review the original story
Bethany Lindsay also recently reported on it for CBC News CLICK HERE for her story
