How Does Chiropractic Differ from Medicine?

Chiropractic-Wiki Topic: How Does Chiropractic Differ from Medicine?

Your Primary Medical Provider (MD, DO) thinks and processes information differently from your Chiropractor (DC). This is due to education and training and a totally different world view.

Chiropractic

Chiropractic is a vitalistic, holistic approach to health. Holistic means thinking of the whole body as one rather than just a bunch of unconnected parts. Chiropractors try to determine the root cause of your lack of health and provide treatments and lifestyle advice to bring balance back to your body.

Medicine

Medically trained doctors see the patient in a mechanistic way. They focus on your presenting symptoms and provide care for that set of symptoms. It is usually drugs to cover the symptoms, which often fail to address the underlying cause.

Chiropractors spend many classroom hours focused on natural healing, nutrition, exercise in addition to anatomy, physiology, neurology and orthopedics. Whereas, medical doctors focus on pathology (disease states), pharmacology (drugs) and surgery. There is virtually no training on nutrition or exercise.

Each type of provider has their purpose within the global healthcare scene. Doctors of chiropractic collaborate freely with medical doctors and some offices hire MDs as part of their staff. And vice versa.

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