• Rosen MG

• Evidence-Based Practice
• Full Spine Techniques
• Infant Care
• Open Access Document
• Pediatrics

Narrative: In 2018 a Melbourne Chiropractor placed on social media a video of him safely and professionally performing an infant vertical suspension test. Leaving aside the stupidity of any Chiropractor using social media to show videos of their professional activities which are private interactions with a patient, the video of the test was used by Deep Medicine to hysterically and politically attack Chiropractors for inappropriate treatment of children.

In turn this led to the Government of the State of Victoria, Australia, in 2019 commissioning an agency of its Department of Health and Human Services, Safer Care Victoria (SCV), to undertake a review of chiropractic manipulative care for children under 12 years of age. This review found Chiropractic care to be safe.

However as of September 2024 the care of children in Australia by Chiropractors remains in question given the Federal Minister for Health, again under medical pressure, required the Chiropractic Board of Australia to restore its warning against Chiropractors providing spinal manipulation to children under 2.

The actual test in question sits within the standard protocols of safe care of infants in both medicine and chiropractic, a reality obfuscated by the medical enemies of Chiropractic in their eagerness to advance the Iowa Plan for containment of the profession.

This paper by a world-renown paediatric Chiropractor and educator examines the ‘infant vertical suspension test’ and gives clinical meaning to the observations provided by this safe and effective, gentle clinical test. 

Author keywords: Chiropractic; Evidence based practice; Paediatrics; Safer Care Victoria; Infant vertical suspension test; Hanging baby. 

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