chiropractic

chiropractor | American Dictionary

chiropractor
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɑɪ·rəˌpræk·tər/
a medical person trained to treat pain and injury esp. by pressing the muscles of a person’s back to adjust the positions of the bones

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For example, donating money to a charitable organization is praiseworthy, the pseudoscientific, exaggerated promises of some chiropractors are blameworthy.
There is an increase in the use of homeopathic practitioners, for example, osteopaths and chiropractors, as well as acupuncturists.
Mental health visits to chiropractors are much less common, but this may ref lect differences in true prevalence or differences in presentation.
Primary health care providers include chiropractors, dentists, dieticians, family physicians, health educators, midwives, nurses, nurse practitioners, optometrists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, psychologists, and social workers.
Nurse practitioners, physicians' assistants, chiropractors, and alternative medicine practitioners, for example, should be able to carry out much of the work currently being under taken by doctors.
Before the study, politicians had agreed only to a short-term contract with the chiropractors and awaited the results from the trial before making a final decision.
There is a substantial overlap between osteopaths, chiropractors and physiotherapists, and the latter do everything that osteopaths can do and considerably more.
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