CASA stands for the Chiropractic Association of South Africa and has been representing and assisting members’ requirements and interests for the last 73 years. Membership is voluntary and there are currently around 544 members (78% of all registered chiropractors).
CASA has an annually-elected national council with a president, vice-president and regional branches with committees and a chairperson. A secretary-general as chief executive officer, assisted by a secretariat, is responsible for its overall administrative management and regular council meetings are held.
CASA’s main aims include promoting, encouraging and maintaining high standards of education, training, conduct and practice within the chiropractic profession in South Africa, and supporting its members as well as the general public to the best of its ability.
As a highly-regulated association, Chiropractic Association of South Africa (CASA) works diligently to:
- Unite all members of the association and protect the integrity, nature, character and status of their profession;
- Promote high ethical standards of practice;
- Settle any questions around the association as well as the profession itself;
- Encourage improved academic teaching, standards of chiropractic education and practice to provide the highest quality of service to the community and patients, as well as to identify appropriate educational outcomes to meet the changing needs of chiropractors for the benefit of their patients;
- Cooperate with appropriate national or international organisations to provide and/or receive information, counsel and assistance in local and global fields of chiropractic and healthcare;
- Encourage and actively support research and aid in the identification of research topics with respect to chiropractic, in part through regular congresses and/or seminars of chiropractic and related disciplines;
- Assist in the establishment and development of a South African chiropractic scientific journal; and
- Assist in developing and promoting an informed public opinion among all peoples in understanding chiropractic.
Dr Lisa Dickerson
Council Member
Dr Lisa Dickerson
Council Member
Dr Lisa Dickerson, the owner and chiropractor at Boskruin Chiropractic, has been a practicing chiropractor for the past nine-and-a-half years since graduating in 2008. Dr Dickerson earned her Mtech: Chiropractic from the University of Johannesburg (UJ) in 2008 as well as obtaining the post-graduate Diploma: Sports Chiropractic in the same year.
Dr Dickerson enjoys treating patients in a general chiropractic practice but has a special interest in sports chiropractic and paediatric chiropractic care. After graduating she served the Olivedale Family Practice as chiropractor for three-and-a-half years before joining the Discovery Health Wellness Centre. During this time Dr Dickerson was also a lecturer at the Department of Chiropractic of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) where she facilitated the 4th year subject, Clinical Biomechanics. Since 2011 she has been treating chiropractic ailments at Bryanston Chiropractic as well as at the Morningside Chiropractic and Sports Injuries Clinic with her current practice being Boskruin Chiropractic in Randburg.
Memberships
- Chiropractic Association of South Africa (CASA)
- Chirosport SA
- Paediatric Chiropractic South Africa (PCSA)
Qualifications
- MTech: Chiropractic
- ICCSP (International Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner
- Basic Life Support Certificate
- Rocktape (Kinesiology taping) Certificate
- Neonatal Examination, Spinal and Cranial Correction and Treatment of Common Paediatric Syndromes (Williams Paediatric Seminars)
Dr Justin Adams
Dr. Justin Adams is the owner of Tygervalley Chiropractic in Cape Town and has been a registered chiropractor since 2014. Dr Adams graduated from the Durban University of Technology (DUT) with an M.Tech: Chiropractic in 2014 after which he served as the Chief Medical Officer at the Varsity College Rugby club, managing the medical team for the University’s various club and USSA rugby teams. Dr Adams also lectured Anatomy and physiology at the Health and Fitness professionals Academy (HFPA).
Dr Adams opened his private practice in Cape town in 2015 and serves the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town. His focus is on family practice but still keeps his passion for sports by treating various professional athletes as well as your day to day sports injuries.
Dr Adams is the chairman of the Western Cape branch of CASA since 2020 and was elected as a National council member in 2021. In the past he served on the Board of Directors of The World Congress of Chiropractic Students (WCCS) as Secretary and African Regional Director. With these positions he aims to grow the profession, promote Chiropractic to the public and facilitate interdisciplinary relationships amongst healthcare professionals.
Dr Danella Lubbe
Dr Danella Lubbe is a registered chiropractor in Kwa-Zulu Natal.
She graduated from DUT with an M.Tech: Chiropractic in 2011 and has completed strapping and various other courses to continually advance her knowledge (in the best interest of her patients health).
Dr Lubbe runs a family practice and is passionate about health and wellness.
Dr Lubbe has worked as a part- time lecturer at DUT and moderator for examinations.
She is currently a member of CASA and has served on numerous committees for the chiropractic community on both a regional and national level.
Qualifications: M.Tech:Chiropractic (DUT)
Membership: CASA
Dr Cleo Prince
Dr Cleo Prince qualified in 2015 from Durban University of Technology (DUT) and started private practice in Musgrave in June of the same year. While she enjoyed private practice immensely, Dr Prince was given the opportunity to lecture within the department of Chiropractic at DUT on firstly, a part time basis from 2015 to 2017, and then she was appointed as a full time academic in 2018. Dr Prince lectures within the undergraduate program, is involved in research and is a clinical supervisor to the postgraduate students, along with running practice on a more part time basis. She enjoys enriching the student’s knowledge with innovative and novel teaching and learning practices, most recently, she teamed up with a university in Amsterdam to carry out an international collaborative project for the 3rd year chiropractic students.
Dr Prince was a member of CASA as a student and later joined as a practitioner. In 2018, she was appointed as a KZN regional committee member where her portfolio focused on student activities at DUT, and assisting the committee members to organise the CASA Congress in 2019. In 2020, Dr Prince was appointed as a council member for the CASA National Committee, and enjoys this new venture and her role is furthering and growing the wonderful profession of Chiropractic!
CASA is dedicated to enhancing the standing of the profession in the eyes of the public and being the voice of the profession in the marketplace. We strive to protect the interests of chiropractic and to position the profession through stakeholder management programs (for example, Discovery Health and BHF).
We are also focused on helping to advance the profession by promoting it to scholars through our career guidance program, thereby encouraging interest in the profession among young people and helping those who are already interested to plan their study/career path for smooth-sailing to success.