(a) A license to practice chiropractic shall not permit the holder thereof to treat for any infectious or communicable diseases, any of the cardio-vascular-renal or cardio-pulmonary diseases, any surgical condition of the abdomen such as acute appendicitis, or any benign or malignant neoplasms; to perform surgical operations; to reduce fractures; to reduce dislocations except in an emergency; to prescribe, administer, dispense or use in his practice drugs or medicines; or to use diagnostic or therapeutic methods involving prescription pharmaceuticals; or to sign death certificates; or to advise a patient against the use of a drug prescribed by a licensed physician or dentist.
(b) Nothing in this section may be construed as restricting a licensed chiropractic physician from performing scholastic, sports, routine or other physical examinations, ordering or performing standard medical, laboratory or radiological or imaging procedures, as a means to assist in arriving at a diagnosis of the patient’s condition, or the utilizing of procedures, structural supports, devises, electric or otherwise, for the purpose of the chiropractic treatment, making an appropriate referral or recommending nutritional, herbal, homeopathic, enzyme or other non prescription pharmacological supplements or preparations.
(c) A licensed chiropractic physician may render health care services, without undue restrictions, as any other physician under the Virgin Islands workers compensation law.