Based on the logic of the PT profession to be able to practice acupuncture with minimal hours of training by referring to it as "dry needling", then as a massage therapist or acupuncturist (with little or no chiropractic training) I should be able to offer a spinal adjustment as long as I refer to it as "vertebral therapeutic movement". Does that sound right to you, because that's an equivalent. How many non-DCs are permitted to offer a chiropractic adjustment? Simply because I claimed it wasn't my intention to perform a chiropractic adjustment on someone doesn't mean I didn't. The issue isn't the intention; the issue is the act of doing -- in this case it's the act of inserting needles into someone in order to affect change in the body.