Chiropractors focus on the intimate relationship between the nervous system and spine, and hold true the following beliefs: While primarily focusing on treating neuromusculoskeletal disorders, chiropractors are not exclusively limited to problems with the nervous system and musculoskeletal system.

When appropriate, chiropractors refer patients to medical doctors or other health practitioners for treatment of lower back pain.

There are three basic causes of vertebral subluxations.

Physical causes include slips and falls, accidents, repetitive motions, and improper lifting.

The guidance, issued yesterday, tells doctors they cannot initiate ‘sexual’ or ‘improper’ relationships with current patients.

But it tells them they can date former patients, as long as they give ‘careful consideration’ to certain factors.‘Although it would not be possible to specify a length of time after which it is acceptable to pursue a relationship with a former patient, it is reasonable to expect that the more recently a professional relationship ended the less likely it is to be appropriate to begin a personal relationship with the patient.’ Doctors should only start a relationship with a former patient if they have used their 'professional judgement' to decide if it is appropriate and are still banned from 'improper' relationships with current patients (file picture) Some senior GPs, however, have previously warned that such relationships are always ‘flawed’.

This reinforces the importance of communication between the chiropractor and the patients.

More research is needed to evaluate whether fulfilment of expectations actually has an impact on patient satisfaction.

RESULTS: Chiropractors and patients expected the chiropractor to find the problem and explain it to the patients, and they also expected patients to feel better and become free of symptoms.True, vertebral subluxations have not received the press that say, AIDS, cancer, cholesterol or heart disease have.However, vertebral subluxations are just as important and are often the underlying cause of a wide variety of health problems.Chiropractic has had a strong political base and sustained demand for services; in recent decades, it has gained more legitimacy and greater acceptance among conventional physicians and health plans in the U. Its early philosophy was based on deduction from irrefutable doctrine, which helped distinguish chiropractic from medicine, provided it with legal and political defenses against claims of practicing medicine without a license, and allowed chiropractors to establish themselves as an autonomous profession.A 2008 commentary proposed that chiropractic actively divorce itself from the straight philosophy as part of a campaign to eliminate untestable dogma and engage in critical thinking and evidence-based research.