What is the IPSCA?

The Illinois Prairie State Chiropractic Association (IPSCA) is a state chartered non-profit professional corporation which was orginally founded in 1950.  The IPSCA was organized to promote and preserve the principles of chiropractic and to obtain licensure privileges for its members.

Throughout the '50s innumberable members were prosecuted (and some jailed) for practicing medicine without a license.  After such hardship, the IPSCA was able to get section 9a of the Illinois Medical Practice Act passed, allowing Palmer graduates the opportunity to be tested and gain Illinois licensure.  This opened the door for licensing to many qualified and deserving chiropractors then and now.  Many D.C.s and patients are indebted to this standing for principles and diligence needed to overcome adversity.

Since the licensure amendment, the IPSCA has been active legislatively and administratively to promote and maintain the distinctness of chiropractic in the healing arts field.  Currently, members of the IPSCA vary in the schools they graduated from, the techniques they utilize, specialties they are certified in, and in ancillary procedures they use.  However, the common bond of members is the primary emphasis on the chiropractic adjustment (the removal of subluxations, primarily the spine).