In plain English
Chiropractic is a separate licensed profession with its own four-year doctoral programs, national board examinations and state boards. Practice is built around manual adjustment and manipulation, usually with exercise, soft tissue work and physical modalities alongside it.
Chiropractors are portal-of-entry providers in every state, meaning a patient can go directly without a referral. Scope varies - imaging, physical modalities, nutritional advice and certain diagnostic privileges differ by state - and chiropractors do not prescribe drugs or perform surgery anywhere.
Almost all of the profession is in small independent practice, often owner-operated single sites. That makes chiropractors a large and very fragmented business audience in which each record is usually both the clinician and the buyer.
Training and credentials
Undergraduate prerequisites, a four-year Doctor of Chiropractic program, national board examinations and a state licence.
| Letters | What they mean |
|---|---|
| DC | Doctor of Chiropractic. |
Where they practise
Solo and small group chiropractic offices, integrated musculoskeletal and sports clinics, occupational and personal injury practice, some hospital and veterans' settings.
Chiropractors on the public record
Counted from what providers file about themselves, with suppression applied before anything is counted, refreshed 2026-10-05. Names, specialties and practice locations are public; work email and phone are for signed-in customers.
| State | On record | With work email | With practice phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17,754 | 2,544 14% | 17,753 |
| Florida | 12,956 | 1,713 13% | 12,954 |
| Texas | 12,270 | 2,222 18% | 12,268 |
| Illinois | 8,253 | 1,344 16% | 8,253 |
| New York | 7,567 | 1,358 18% | 7,566 |
| Pennsylvania | 6,862 | 1,071 16% | 6,862 |
| Michigan | 5,636 | 779 14% | 5,634 |
| Minnesota | 5,615 | 966 17% | 5,613 |
Closely related, and where to find them.
Closely related
- Physical therapist Movement and function, doctoral entry, and mostly clinic chains rather than individuals.
- Physiatrist (PM&R) The physician specialty of function and non-surgical musculoskeletal care.
- Orthopedic surgeon Bones, joints and spine - and the device-heavy specialty that owns its own surgery centres.
Find them
- Chiropractors list counts by state, the fields a record carries, a sample record.
- Chiropractors chiropractors by state, city and practice.
- Chiropractors in New York, NY
- Chiropractors in Los Angeles, CA
- Chiropractors in Houston, TX
- Chiropractors in Miami, FL
- Chiropractors in Chicago, IL
- Chiropractors in Philadelphia, PA
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