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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