Chiropractic medicine
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Chiropractic is a holistic healing profession which attempts to take into account all factors such as patients' attitude toward their work, the healing potential of caring and empathy, and the relationship between the patient and the provider.
Traditional (allopathic) medicine is criticized as being dehumanizing and depersonalizing because it is based on a biomedical model which tries to explain disease in a mechanistic manner focusing only on biochemical and physiological factors while ignoring other significant factors.
Special emphasis is placed upon misalignment of the joints of the back which are believed to affect the nervous system producing disease symptoms. It is generally accepted by many health insurance providers that chiropractic treatment is effective in treating back pain.
Chiropractic treatments which move beyond spinal adjustments are controversial and may not be covered by health insurance. Nevertheless they may be effective due to factors not readily explained by a biochemical model.
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Schools of Chiropractic United States
- Alphabetical list by country with links to Chiropractic Colleges
- Cleveland Chiropractic College, Kansas City, Missouri and Los Angeles, California
- Life Chiropractic College West in Hayward, California (Bay area)
- Life Chiropractic College in Marietta, Geogia
- Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, Missouri
- National University of Health Sciences in Lombard, Illinois near Chicago
- New York Chiropractic College in Seneca Falls, New York
- Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington, Minnesota
- Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa
- Palmer College of Chiropactic Florida in Port Orange, Florida
- Palmer College of Chiropractic West in San Jose, California
- Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas, Texas
- Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic in Spartanberg, South Carolina
- Los Angeles College of Chiropractic of the Southern California University of Health Sciences
- Texas Chiropractic College in Pasadena, Texas near Houston
- Western States Chiropractic College in Portland, Oregon
Schools of Chiropratic outside the United States
- Australia
- Canada
- England
- France
- New Zealand
External Links
- Order of list follows Google
- American Chiropractic Association
- International Chiropractic Association
- The Chiropractic Resource Organization
- ChiroZine, chiropractic news)
- The Canadian Chiropractic Association(s)
- Chiropratic Online Today (COT Discussion List is interesting)
- ChiroWeb.com "Creating Chiropractic Community"
- British Chiropractic Association
- Chiropractic Economics
- The Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research
Further Reading
- Chiropractic in the United States: Training, Practice, and Research
- Chiropractic Economics Magazine: Index of Articles
- Links to materials on chiropractic research
