Table 4.

Barriers to Indigenous patients seeking chiropractic care

Themes
	Personal Financial	Accessibility Process Issues	Educational Lack of knowledge about chiropractic in Indigenous community	Community Issues Lived experience of institutionalised racism
Examples of Comments
1	Cost of treatment	Location of Indigenous people/clinicians	Poor understanding in all communities re chiropractic	Reluctance of Indigenous patient/s to approach unknown clinician/clinic
2	Funding arrangements	Distance	Lack of awareness	Cultural rules of potential patients
3	Poor referring system	Reliable service in rural locations	No history of treatment in community/family	Fear of being treated in a manner that goes against cultural rules
4	Lack of proper equipment	Limited public transport		Fear of being treated badly
5	Time poor

(n = 112)

(Note: Bold text refers to themes and text below refers to codes that were used to construct themes)