Chiropractors
"I recently started feeling sharp pain at the base of my head and in my neck muscles, and no medications or painkillers helped at all. What made it worse is that I've suffered from migraines for many years. One of my friends suggested I try something called chiropractic care. Like a lot of people, I assumed this specialty only dealt with back pain, but the specialist told me it's actually connected to all kinds of bone, neck, joint, and muscle pain, and even the nervous system. After just a few sessions, my pain started disappearing completely and my health improved so much that even my migraines felt like they'd faded away." That's how British woman Hannah Atkinson described how chiropractic treatment helped her overcome her suffering without taking any medications or painkillers and without undergoing any surgery. Back pain is one of the most common health problems people suffer from — statistics show that 540 million people around the world suffer from back pain, and back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide. It doesn't just keep people from doing their jobs, but even from carrying out simple daily activities. From this, you can understand the importance of the work done by doctors who specialize in chiropractic care, whose main job is diagnosing and treating cases of back, neck, joint, and muscle pain, as well as osteoporosis, and also people suffering from chronic headaches and migraines. A chiropractor doesn't rely on any medications, drugs, or surgery in their treatment — only their hands and some medical tools. They understand the function of every part of the body deeply and work to fix any dysfunction in it and improve its performance through certain touches and techniques that help strengthen the function of that part, whether it's a muscle, joint, vertebra, or tissue.
Meet the Writer: Waleed Abo Omiraa
What You'll Actually Do
The core tasks and responsibilities that fill a typical day.
- Perform a series of manual adjustments to the spine or other articulations of the body to correct the musculoskeletal system.
- 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.
- Maintain accurate case histories of patients.
- Advise patients about recommended courses of treatment.
- Obtain and record patients' medical histories.
- Analyze x-rays to locate the sources of patients' difficulties and to rule out fractures or diseases as sources of problems.
- Counsel patients about nutrition, exercise, sleeping habits, stress management, or other matters.
- Consult with or refer patients to appropriate health practitioners when necessary.
- Suggest and apply the use of supports such as straps, tapes, bandages, or braces if necessary.
- Recommend and arrange for diagnostic procedures, such as blood chemistry tests, saliva tests, x-rays, or other imaging procedures.