Opinion No.

The Honorable Doug Wood State Representative 215 North Claremont Sherwood, Arkansas 72116

Dear Representative Wood:

This is in response to your request for an opinion on the following questions:

Do Arkansas statutes protect the chiropractor-patient relationship with respect to privileged communications? In other words, could the records of chiropractic patients be subpoenaed into Arkansas Courts in any kind of case in which the chiropractor could be called as a witness without the privileged communications protection?

If Arkansas's Privileged Communications Statute does not protect chiropractic…