0 a way of treating diseases that involves pressing a person's joints (= places where two bones are connected): --
My neurologist prescribed chiropractic to control pain as part of my treatment.
She tried alternative treatments like acupuncture and chiropractic.
1 relating to or involving treatment that involves pressing a person's joints (= places where two bones are connected): --
If you have back pain, chiropractic manipulation may help.
2 the system of treatment used by a chiropractor --
The outcome has been that not only was their case considered but the committee is recommending that chiropractics be a profession supplementary to medicine.
In particular, it will enable chiropractic to grow within a formal framework which will nevertheless not place draconian restrictions on it.
I know what a difference it has made to have statutory regulations for osteopathy and chiropractic.
We are examining the commissioning of alternative therapies, and osteopathy and chiropractic treatment must be considered in that context.
I have already referred to the first two—osteopathy and chiropractic care.
That makes chiropractic the most widely used complementary therapy after osteopathy.
I know that there are some medical practitioners who practise manipulative techniques themselves which are little different from osteopathy or chiropractic.
Notable exceptions to that are the chiropractic, osteopathic, acupuncture and homoeopathic professions.
