Celebrate Wellness! A public service of The Unified Virginia Chiropractic Association in association with A Trusted Voice W HAT IS C HIROPRACTIC ? (AND HOW CAN IT BENEFIT ME ?) Presented by: Your Doctor of Chiropractic
What is Chiropractic? (AND HOW CAN IT BENEFIT me?) Today’s Agenda: History Chiropractic licensure: Chiropractors become Doctors Who is seeing a chiropractor? Chiropractic methods The nervous system: The heart of the matter Value (costs & benefits) How can it benefit me?
What is Chiropractic? (AND HOW CAN IT BENEFIT me?) Today’s Agenda: History Chiropractic licensure: Chiropractors become Doctors Who is seeing a chiropractor? Chiropractic methods The nervous system: The heart of the matter Value (costs & benefits) How can it benefit me?
9/18/1895
“Enter to Learn How.”
What is Chiropractic? (AND HOW CAN IT BENEFIT me?) Today’s Agenda: History Chiropractic licensure: Chiropractors become Doctors Who is seeing a chiropractor? Chiropractic methods The nervous system: The heart of the matter Value (costs & benefits) How can it benefit me?
What is Chiropractic? (AND HOW CAN IT BENEFIT me?) Today’s Agenda: History Chiropractic licensure: Chiropractors become Doctors Who is seeing a chiropractor? Chiropractic methods The nervous system: The heart of the matter Value (costs & benefits) How can it benefit me?
What is Chiropractic? (AND HOW CAN IT BENEFIT me?) Today’s Agenda: History Chiropractic licensure: Chiropractors become Doctors Who is seeing a chiropractor? Chiropractic methods The nervous system: The heart of the matter Value (costs & benefits) How can it benefit me?
What is Chiropractic? (AND HOW CAN IT BENEFIT me?) Today’s Agenda: History Chiropractic licensure: Chiropractors become Doctors Who is seeing a chiropractor? Chiropractic methods The nervous system: The heart of the matter Value (costs & benefits) How can it benefit me?
Nervous system = The Master System CNS (Brain, spinal cord & related nerves) functions as your “central computer”
What is Chiropractic? (AND HOW CAN IT BENEFIT me?) Today’s Agenda: History Chiropractic licensure: Chiropractors become Doctors Who is seeing a chiropractor? Chiropractic methods The nervous system: The heart of the matter Value (costs & benefits) How can it benefit me?
Safe Proven Cost-effective - Liliedahl et al. Cost of Care for Common Back Pain Conditions Initiated With Chiropractic Doctor vs Medical Doctor/Doctor of Osteopathy as First Physician: Experience of One Tennessee-Based General Health Insurer. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. November - December 2010;33(9): New Zealand Report, Report of the Commission of Inquiry. Government Printer, Wellington, New Zealand, ;30(12):
What is Chiropractic? (AND HOW CAN IT BENEFIT me?) Today’s Agenda: History Chiropractic licensure: Chiropractors become Doctors Who is seeing a chiropractor? Chiropractic methods The nervous system: The heart of the matter Value (costs & benefits) How can chiropractic benefit me?
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