New Mexico Statutes Chapter 61. Professional and Occupational Licenses § 61-4-2. Definitions

A. “advanced practice chiropractic certification registry” means a compendium kept by the board that meets and maintains the board's established credentials for certified advanced practice chiropractic physicians;

B. “certified advanced practice chiropractic physician” means a chiropractic physician who has been included in the advanced practice chiropractic certification registry;

C. “chiropractic” means the science, art and philosophy of things natural, the science of locating and removing interference with the transmissions or expression of nerve forces in the human body by the correction of misalignments or subluxations of the articulations and adjacent structures, more especially those of the vertebral column and pelvis, for the purpose of restoring and maintaining health for treatment of human disease primarily by, but not limited to, adjustment and manipulation of the human structure. It shall include, but not be limited to, the prescribing and administering of all natural agents to assist in the healing act, such as food, water, heat, cold, electricity, mechanical appliances and medical devices; the selling of herbs, nutritional supplements and homeopathic remedies; the administering of a drug by injection by a certified advanced practice chiropractic physician; and any necessary diagnostic procedure, excluding invasive procedures, except as provided by the board by rule and regulation. It shall exclude operative surgery, the prescription or use of controlled or dangerous drugs and the practice of acupuncture;

D. “board” means the chiropractic board;

E. “chiropractic physician” includes doctor of chiropractic, chiropractor and chiropractic physician and means a person who practices chiropractic as defined in the Chiropractic Physician Practice Act; and

F. “chiropractic assistant” means a person who practices under the on-premises supervision of a licensed chiropractic physician.