| Misunderstood | | | | educational background beginning with three years of |
| A chiropractic doctor is probably one of the most | | | | pre-chiropractic study. From there they advance into a |
| misunderstood healthcare practitioners in the medical | | | | four-year course of study. A student of chiropractic |
| profession. Through the years they have been looked | | | | spends as many hours in the study of human |
| at askance by doubters who are full of suspicion. In | | | | physiology as that of a medical doctor. Chiropractic |
| times past, they have been called quacks, or worse. | | | | programs require a minimum of 4,200 hours of |
| This is due, in part, to the public's narrow and limited | | | | combined classroom, laboratory, and clinical experience. |
| view of medical treatment - being that solely of | | | | The difference between the education of an MD and |
| administering prescription drugs and performing | | | | that of a chiropractor lies in the fact that an MD trains |
| surgery. | | | | in pharmacology and surgical procedures and |
| It's unfortunate that the majority of people believe this | | | | chiropractor trains in the care of the spine. |
| is all there is to health care. There truth is there is more | | | | Worth the Cost? |
| to health care than drugs and surgery! A great deal | | | | Some will assert that it costs too much to go to the |
| more! | | | | chiropractor. However, the opposite is true. The fact is |
| Sad to say, but even some chiropractic patients | | | | that oftentimes when a person is treated by a |
| haven't a real clear understanding of what chiropractic | | | | chiropractic doctor for one certain symptom, the |
| is. And for those who have never been to a | | | | adjustments (treatments) result in a higher level of |
| chiropractor, most are totally misinformed as to the | | | | overall health and well being. This leads to cutting back |
| make up of the profession. The fact is chiropractic is | | | | on prescription drugs, preventing the need for surgery, |
| the largest drug-free form of health care and the third | | | | and slowing down the aging process. |
| largest form of any health care in North America. | | | | Those who benefit from chiropractic treatments look |
| What is Chiropractic? | | | | at it as an important part of their ongoing health |
| The word "chiropractic" is a blending of the Greek | | | | maintenance, similar to that of regular exercise or |
| words cheir (hand) and praxis (action) and means | | | | visiting their local health spa. They now know the |
| "done by hand." Chiropractic is an alternative medical | | | | difference - how they felt before chiropractic |
| system in that the practitioner takes a different | | | | treatments and how much better they feel now. |
| approach from conventional medicine in diagnosing, | | | | A survey of patients of chiropractors in an |
| classifying, and treating medical problems. | | | | independent physicians' association found that, when |
| Essentially, chiropractic focuses on the relationship | | | | asked if they would recommend their Doctor of |
| between the body's structure - primarily that of the | | | | Chiropractic to others, 95.5% of the patients said "yes." |
| spine - and the body's function. Doctors of chiropractic | | | | 1 |
| use hands-on therapy called manipulation (or | | | | A chiropractor is a whole health practitioner who is |
| adjustment) as their core procedure. | | | | concerned not just about your symptoms, but your |
| Comparable to an MD? | | | | overall state of well being. What your doctor of |
| So is the training of a chiropractor as rigorous as that | | | | chiropractic can offer, no other doctor can. Have no |
| of a medical doctor? The answer is a resounding, yes. | | | | doubt that a chiropractor is well trained to assist you |
| Today's doctor of chiropractic receives an extensive | | | | reach your own personal optimal health. |