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Chiropractor

Chiropractor

  • Help people improve their health through spinal and musculoskeletal care.
  • Make a positive impact by alleviating pain and enhancing mobility.
  • Unique hands-on approach to diagnosing and treating neuromuscular issues.
💰 Earn $0-$0
📚 Doctoral or Professional Degree
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Overview

Assess, treat, and care for patients by manipulation of spine and musculoskeletal system. May provide spinal adjustment or address sacral or pelvic misalignment.

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Minimum Education

Doctoral or Professional Degree

Career Prospects

Excellent (Increasing by 5% or more)

Training Time

Over 4 years

Job Openings

3,100 Annually

Median Earnings

$0 in California
$76,530 Nationally

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Day-to-Day

  • Evaluate the functioning of the neuromuscularskeletal system and the spine using systems of chiropractic diagnosis.
  • Diagnose health problems by reviewing patients' health and medical histories, questioning, observing, and examining patients and interpreting x-rays.
  • Perform a series of manual adjustments to the spine or other articulations of the body to correct the musculoskeletal system.
  • Obtain and record patients' medical histories.
  • Maintain accurate case histories of patients.

Best For You If...

YOU Like 💕

  • Relating with or serving others
  • Thinking and problem solving
  • Working with my hands

You are skilled in 💫

  • Active Listening
  • Critical Thinking
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Monitoring
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Speaking

You value 🙏

  • Accomplishing things
  • Having freedom
  • Personal relationships

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Chiropractor

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