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What Is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic is a healthcare profession that focuses on disorders of the musculoskeletal system and nervous system. It treats issues like back pain, neck pain, joint pain, and headaches through drug-free methods like manual manipulation and therapeutic exercises. Chiropractors also provide nutritional and lifestyle counseling. Treatment involves clinical exams, tests, and imaging to determine if chiropractic care is suitable and to identify any medical conditions it could support in conjunction with other care.

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What Is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic is a healthcare profession that focuses on disorders of the musculoskeletal system and nervous system. It treats issues like back pain, neck pain, joint pain, and headaches through drug-free methods like manual manipulation and therapeutic exercises. Chiropractors also provide nutritional and lifestyle counseling. Treatment involves clinical exams, tests, and imaging to determine if chiropractic care is suitable and to identify any medical conditions it could support in conjunction with other care.

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Topic sentence: Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on disorders of


the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system, and the effects of these disorders
on general health.
A. Chiropractic care is used most often to treat neuromusculoskeletal complaints,
including but not limited to
a. back pain
b. neck pain
c. pain in the joints of the arms or legs
d. headaches.
B. advantages of using chiropractic
a. drug-free
b. broad diagnostic skills
c. trained to recommend therapeutic rehabilitative exercises to provide
i. nutritional
ii. dietary
iii. lifestyle counseling.
C. term and condition to doing chiropractic
a. clinical examination
b. laboratory testing
c. diagnostic imaging
d. other diagnostic interventions
Concluding sentence: When other medical conditions exist, chiropractic care may
complement or support medical treatment by relieving the musculoskeletal aspects
associated with the condition.
Summary
What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on disorders of
the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system, and the effects of these disorders
on general health. In short, Chiropractic is a treatment that focused on
musculoskeletal system and nervous system. Chiropractic care can treat
neuromusculoskeletal, such as back pain, neck pain, pain in the joints of the arms or
legs and headaches. The advantages of using this treatment are drug-free (means this
treatment not using any drugs), have broad diagnostic skills and are also trained to
recommend therapeutic and rehabilitative exercises, as well as to provide nutritional,
dietary and lifestyle counseling. To use this treatment we have to do clinical
examination, laboratory testing, diagnostic imaging and other diagnostic interventions
to determine when chiropractic treatment is appropriate or when it is not
appropriate. When other medical conditions exist, chiropractic care may complement
or support medical treatment by relieving the musculoskeletal aspects associated with
the condition.
Source:
American Chiropractic Association. What is chiropractic. Available from URL:
[Link] November 17, 2013.
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