All About Chiropractors
Below are some enquiries you may have about Chiropractors. If your question is not answered here, please contact us at Courtyard Chiropractic directly and we will be happy to answer it.
Q. What kind of education and training do chiropractors have?
Q. How are chiropractors licensed?
Q. What is the history of Chiropractic care?
Manual manipulation of the spine (and other joints) has been around for a long time. In Greece and China, ancient writings dating between 2700 B.C. and 1500 B.C. mention spinal manipulation and the manoeuvring of the lower extremities to ease low back pain. Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician who lived from 460 to 357 B.C., published a text detailing the importance of manual manipulation. In one of his writings he declares, “Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases.
The profession of chiropractic has gained much recognition and scientific support throughout the twentieth century. Research studies that have very clearly demonstrated the value of chiropractic care in reducing health care costs, improving recovery rates and increasing patient satisfaction. In fact, one very large study conducted in Canada, the 1993 Manga Study, concluded that chiropractic care would save hundreds of millions of dollars annually in work disability payments and direct health care costs. Several other studies conducted by the U.S. Government, the Rand Corporation and others, have all demonstrated the value of chiropractic care.
Q. What makes Chiropractors unique in their approach to spinal health?
Q. I’ve heard of the Hippocratic Oath for Medical Doctors, do Chiropractors take a similar oath?
I do hereby swear before these assembled witnesses that I will do my utmost to keep this oath as a doctor of chiropractic. I will light the way to the understanding of those natural laws that preserve the human body, as a fitting temple for the soul. I will keep the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of the sick as my foremost duty, ever searching for and correcting the cause of their disease to the best of my ability. I will at all times stand ready to serve humanity without distinction of race, creed or colour. I will prevent and alleviate human suffering. I will exemplify a pattern of living in harmony with the laws of nature. With purity I will pass my life and practice my art. I will refrain from any act of wrongdoing. I will regard the keeping of a patient’s confidence as a moral obligation. I will at all times consider the patients under my care as of supreme importance. I will not spare myself in rendering them the help that I have been taught by my alma mater. May the skilful use of my hands be so directed, that I may bring strength to the sick, relief to the suffering, peace of mind to the anxious, and the inspiration to the human race to attain bountiful health, that we may live this life to the fullest expression of its innate endowments. I therefore solemnly swear to uphold these principles and precepts, to the best of my ability, so help me God.
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