Chiropractic Healthcare

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This paper explores the world of Chiropractics, focusing on the history, delivery system of care, a description of traditional services, schooling and licensure and regulatory issues of chiropractics. This paper discusses and compares the different types of Chiropractors available: straights, mixers and those considered treating cause vs. effects.

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"Chiropractics is the second largest form of healthcare delivery system, second to traditional medicine. "9.8 million patients made 135 million office visits during 1983." (National Council Against Health Fraud [NCAHF] Position Paper, n.d.) That level continues to grow. This paper will investigate chiropractic care from various perspectives, including: history of chiropractic, description of traditional services, schooling, licensing requirements and regulatory agencies. History of Chiropractics: While most individuals credit Daniel David Palmer as being the father of chiropractics (Phillips, n.d.) when he performed his first spinal manipulation on September 18, 1895 in Davenport, Iowa, spinal manipulation and associated therapies can be traced back to the times of Hippocrates (NCAHF Position Paper, n.d.) and early osteopathic physicians."

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