Spine & Sports: Why go to a chiropractor?

Below is a link to an article from the Harvard Post that explains that although doctors of chiropractic are known for managing back and spine disorders, they are trained and in most states including Illinois they are licensed to manage a wide variety of musculoskeletal disorders.
Also mentions the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital's Medical Back Pain Program in Plymouth, MA. Their medical director is a chiropractor and they employ other DCs in the clinic and emergency department. This model is also used at other hospitals in the US.
Do you think hospitals in our area should adopt this model?

Spine & Sports: Why go to a chiropractor?

Inaugural Chiropractic VA Residency Appointees

I have posted about the new US Dept of Veteran's Affairs chiropractic residency program. The first six inaugural selections have been named. These three year hospital-based training programs expand the residents’ ability to collaborate with other healthcare professionals in team care, as trainees learn with and from other healthcare providers during interdisciplinary rotations.
Doctors of chiropractic presently treat veterans at 47 VA clinics around the country.

http://blogs.palmer.edu/news/2014/09/12/san-jose-campus-alumna-among-inaugural-va-residency-appointments/

The US Open's wellness team was created in 2002 and is chaired by chiropractic physician Dr. Jeffrey Poplarski. 
This year, the 125-member wellness team included massage therapists, athletic trainers, hyperbaric chamber technicians and some 30 chiropractors, assembled in two different locations to provide care to players, support staff and volunteers.
Have any of you golfers been treated by one of these manual medicine professions?

http://mydigimag.rrd.com/display_article.php?id=1785588&id_issue=221336

The man who wants to kill crunches

Now getting back to my specialty of manual medicine. 
During my three years of post graduate classes which ultimately lead to my board certification in chiropractic rehabilitation in 2001, Dr. Stuart McGill taught one of my classes. I have been following his fascinating work ever since that time.
He is a professor of spinal biomechanics and has researched and written extensively on the detrimental effects of lumbar (low back) flexion and is a critic of abdominal crunch exercises.
I teach many abdominal and core exercises based on the results of his work that put significantly less stress of the lumbar discs than crunches and many of the traditional abdominal and low back exercises.
Was anyone aware this work?
http://www.macleans.ca/society/health/the-man-who-wants-to-kill-crunches/