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The World Chiropractic Alliance (WCA) is a not-for-profit corporation founded in Arizona in 1989 that serves as the voice of conservative "straight" chiropractors (those who rely exclusively on subluxation-correction).[1]
The Alliance claims to be "the only major chiropractic organization which passionately defends the rights of subluxation-based doctors and will stand up against those who would corrupt chiropractic by denying its philosophical and vitalistic foundations,"[2] and believes that spinal adjustment should begin at birth and continue for life,[3] even in the absence of symptoms.[4] It tends to have an antagonistic relationship to the World Federation of Chiropractic because of philosophical differences.
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- ^ "Purpose & Overview: Protecting and Promoting the Principles of Chiropractic". World Chiropractic Alliance. Archived from the original on 16 February 2001. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
- ^ Homola, Samuel (2001). "Is the Chiropractic Subluxation Theory a Threat to Public Health?". Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. 5 (1): 45–53. Archived from the original on 2012-10-29. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
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