What type of education do Chiropractic Doctors get?
Today's Doctor of Chiropractic is well educated. Chiropractors are trained every bit as well as dentists and medical doctors for their particular field of expertise. After undergraduate studies, today's chiropractic doctor completes an additional four year curriculum of about 4,500 classroom hours of health sciences.
The science of chiropractic requires a special emphasis on anatomy, physiology, pathology, neurology, biomechanics, X-ray, spinal adjusting techniques and related subjects. This demanding curriculum prepares chiropractic doctors to locate the Vertebral Subluxation Complex and help correct the resulting nervous system
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dysfunction. This training also prepares the chiropractor to recognize when a patient may need referral to other health care professionals.
To graduate with a Doctor of Chiropractic degree, each candidate passes a demanding set of National Board Examinations. Then, doctors apply to a provincial governmental or professional licensing board, and have to pass a still more difficult test before being granted the privilege to practice.
A chiropractic education never ends. Most doctors complete postgraduate instruction for license renewal and to stay current on the latest scientific research. As you can see,
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Doctors of Chiropractic
are
HIGHLY TRAINED
PROFESSIONALS
concerned with
OPTIMUM HEALTH
and
HUMAN FUNCTION,
more
specifically
the function
of the
SPINE.
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Dr. Victor Jean Ouellette
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