By: Citlali Alfonso and Arlene Chapina

What is Chiropractor?  A chiropractor is a health approach and profession of a personage who emphasizes in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskletal system, especially the spine.  It is involved in working with the nervous system, which then is handled by manipulating the spinal column and other parts of the body.  Also chiropractors are involved in treating scoliosis, unrelated aliments like acid reflux, headaches, and anxiety.

Job Duties  The job duties for a chiropractor are to: realign spinal joints and reduce the back pain.  They have to take care of their patients exercise, rest, environment, and heredity.  Cure diseases/ abnormalities that are related to the nervous system.  Have to be patient.  They help their patients not by giving them medication, and also giving them massages on the lower back.

Requirements  Chiropractors must receive their degree in Chiropractic Medicine, in order to receive a job as a chiropractor.  They must complete ninety semester hours of undergrad schooling in Chiropractic programs.  They need to provide vitamin, herbal hemoepathic, and other alternative herbal remedies.  The studies that they must include is Biology, Nutrition, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Chemistry.  The personal requirements: patience listening ability, bedside-manner, diplomacy, discretion, honesty, and integrity.

Salary  A chiropractor’s salary since the year of 2006, the median salary for chiropractors is 65,220 dollars per year.  Now the majority of the chiropractors earn between $45,710 and $96,500 dollars per year.

Why The Interest?  I took interest because I liked how the chiropractor learns about the human body.  Also it teaches you a way to help a person by massaging the part of the body that has pain.  It can help you in a emergency as well.

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