TCA is the ONLY association advocating for your right to practice in Texas!
The Texas Chiropractic Association (TCA) is the essential voice for chiropractic in Texas. TCA provides protection, state-wide advocacy, information and education for the nearly 7,000 doctors of chiropractic (DCs) who are licensed to practice in Texas, including all of its members. TCA works hard to advocate the position the citizens of Texas should have adequate access to the health care of their choice and DCs are adequately represented in the government’s decision-making process.
TCA was critical in the Texas Supreme Court landmark victory to Texas chiropractors on January 29, 2021, ending over a decade-long dispute with the Texas Medical Association (TMA) over the role of the nervous system in chiropractic practice with its ruling in Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners et al v. Texas Medical Association. The Supreme Court upheld the Board’s definitions of the “musculoskeletal system” and “subluxation complex” that referenced nerves and, in a split decision, upheld the Board’s rule pertaining to vestibular ocular nystagmus testing (VONT).
Advocacy is TCA's No. 1 priority and we do this in different ways:
The Texas Chiropractic Association (TCA) is the essential voice for chiropractic in Texas. TCA provides protection, state-wide advocacy, information and education for the nearly 7,000 doctors of chiropractic (DCs) who are licensed to practice in Texas, including all of its members. TCA works hard to advocate the position the citizens of Texas should have adequate access to the health care of their choice and DCs are adequately represented in the government’s decision-making process.
TCA was critical in the Texas Supreme Court landmark victory to Texas chiropractors on January 29, 2021, ending over a decade-long dispute with the Texas Medical Association (TMA) over the role of the nervous system in chiropractic practice with its ruling in Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners et al v. Texas Medical Association. The Supreme Court upheld the Board’s definitions of the “musculoskeletal system” and “subluxation complex” that referenced nerves and, in a split decision, upheld the Board’s rule pertaining to vestibular ocular nystagmus testing (VONT).
Advocacy is TCA's No. 1 priority and we do this in different ways:
- Chiropractic Development Initiative (CDI): CDI is a long-term commitment to positively affect changes in statute, regulation, as well as government and public perception. CDI directly supports TCA's advocacy, legal and public relations initiatives to advance chiropractic in the Lone Star State.
- Texas Chiropractic Association Political Action Committee (TCA-PAC): works to promote the inclusion of chiropractic and the improvement of Texas patients’ health care by raising funds and contributing to support worthy candidates for state office who have demonstrated their belief in the value of chiropractic and the legislative agenda of the Texas Chiropractic Association.
