Re: RC: Re: Re: RE: Chiropractors

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Hi Heidi
I believe both of you are referring to Osteopaths. I've been to plenty
of orthopedists and work with them in my rehab practice--- they all hate
chiros and feel that manipulation is for charlatans-- however,
osteopaths are MD's and do manipulation. I've gone to a few really good
ones!
Bette

CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 9/12/00 7:26:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, cyclone@snet.net
> writes:
> 
> << Last I knew, orthopedists are also trained to do chiropractic adjustments,
>  they just do other stuff too. >>
> 
> Yep.  They are sort of the human equivalent of DVM
> chiropractors--orthopedists are MD's who essentially do chiropractic work but
> don't call it that.  A graduate human DC is more like a DDS--has a fair
> amount of medical training in the pursuit of one system, but is not actually
> an MD.
> 
> Heidi
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