Chris Anderson DC – Investigation & Review of Misleading and Unsubstantiated Claims about the Efficacy of Treatment

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Chris Anderson DC – Investigation & Review of Misleading and Unsubstantiated Claims about the Efficacy of Treatment

Violation of College of Chiropractors of British Columbia Efficacy Claims Policy  

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. 

CLICK HERE for his website

***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

David Olson DC is the Chair of the College Board. He is a graduate of Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College and has been licensed since 1980. His website includes several statement that do not meet the threshold of the Board’s Policy

Chris Anderson DC is a graduate of Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College and has been licensed since 1997. His website is riddled with violations of the Board’s Policy on Claims Efficacy

Hafeez Merani DC is a new graduate of Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) having been licensed in 2012 and sitting on the College of Chiropractors’ Board. But don’t let his inexperience fool you in regards to his ability to serve on the Board and sit in judgement of other chiropractors.  

Johnny Suchdev DC is a Board member of the College of Chiropractors of British Columbia and has been licensed since 2005 following his graduation from Western States Chiropractic College in Portland Oregon. 

Larissa M Juren DC is a Board Member of the College of Chiropractors of British Columbia having graduated from Logan College of Chiropractic and has been licensed since 2011. 

Parm Rai DC is a graduate of the chiropractic program at Southern California University of Health Sciences and registered for practice in BC in 2006. He serves on the College of Chiropractors Board and is one of the two that had a complaint filed against him.   

Gil Desaulniers DC is a graduate of Life University College of Chiropractic and was licensed in BC in 2008. Besides sitting on the College of Chiropractors of British Columbia, Desaulniers is a member of one of the world’s largest chiropractic families with 44 chiropractors in his extended family.

CLICK HERE to review the original story 

Bethany Lindsay also recently reported on it for CBC News CLICK HERE for her story