1. 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

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 9/18/1895

5. “Enter to Learn How.”

8. 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?

10. 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?

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 it benefit me?

14. 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?

15. Nervous system = The Master System CNS (Brain, spinal cord & related nerves) functions as your “central computer”

16. 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?

17.  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):640-643. - New Zealand Report, Report of the Commission of Inquiry. Government Printer, Wellington, New Zealand, 1979. 2000;30(12):755-766

18. 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?

19. Case Studies & Special Circumstances

20. Resources Unified Virginia Chiropractic Association http://virginiachiropractic.org/ http://virginiachiropractic.org/ Or just ask the doctor today!

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