M.D. Basics
At Premier Miller we provide a high quality team of licensed and competent health care professionals. Our
physicians are genuinely interested in maximizing not only your physical recovery, but your emotional recovery as well,
through a good level of communication providing detailed informaton about your injuries. Our physicians and nurse practitioners
have many years of training and experience in dealing with a wide range of trauma-related injuries.
The physician's role is to deliver safe, high quality medical care with convenience and efficiency; conduct a prompt and
detailed history and physical examination to determine the extent of injuries; and prescribe treatment regimens to speed up
the healing process.
We offer a full service diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of injured patients where the physician works as part of an
interdisciplinary team of health professionals, including nurse practitioners, massage therapists, and chiropractors with a physican
serving as on-site medical director.
Approprate diagnostic studies, including X-rays, MRI/CT scans, nerve studies, and soft tissue studies, are conducted
along with a comprehensive physical examination to determine the extent of injuries and rule out any serious underlying condition.
Pain management to control or relieve pain and rehabilitation for recovery may be prescribed. Patients may also receive timely and appropriate referrals to
top orthopaedic, spine, and neurosurgeons, who work closely with us. If surgical interventions are needed, they are part of the superior
quality and cost effectie health care services we offer.
Chiropractic Basics - John B. Miller, D.C.
- What is Chiropractic?
- Are chiropractors physicians? Are they required to be licensed?
- What chiropractors do
What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a branch of the healing arts that is concerned with human health and disease processes. They
focus on the physiological and biochemical conditions of patients, including how spinal, musculoskeletal,
neurological, vascular, emotional, nutritional and emotional relationships affect patient's well-being. In doing
so, they also consider environmental conditions surrounding the patient.
Chiropractic is an ancient healing practice, well documented in ancient Chinese and Greek history. Hippocrates
(Greek physician - 460 to 357 B.C.) wrote: "Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many
diseases".
In the United States, the practice of spinal manipulation started in 1895 with Daniel David Palmer. Palmer,
who focused in studying anatomy and physiology, founded the Palmer School of Chiropractic in 1897 - still one of
the most prominent chiropractic colleges in the nation.
Are chiropractors physicians? Are they required to be licensed?
Doctors of Chiropractic are physicians who spend a minimum of 4,200 hours in academical, laboratory and
clinical training in accredited chiropractic colleges. To become licensed in the state of Florida a prospective
chiropractic student must have a four year undergraduate degree before acceptance into the chiropractic program.
This degree must include courses in biology, inorganic and organic chemistry, physics, psychology and related lab
work. Once enrolled in chiropractic school the course work is four years long and includes comparable medical school
classroom hours in biology, chemistry, anatomy, physiology and pathology.
Becoming licensed as a chiropractic
physician requires passing three different National Board exams and then passing the State Board exam.
What chiropractors do
Chiropractors are dedicated to non-invasive care promoting science-based approaches to a variety of
ailments. They can diagnose and prescribe appropriate therapy to help patients heal from a wide range of
dysfunctions and disorders. Most common procedures include the adjustment and manipulation of the articulations
of the spine, as well as adjacent tissues. Chiropractors are educated in the diagnosis and correction of spinal
misalignments. These misalignments are called subluxations. Subluxations can be the cause of pain, muscle spasm or
radicular symptoms such as sciatica. Subluxations can also affect proper nerve communication with internal organs
resulting in disease and dysfunction. Finally, subluxations may be the root cause of degenerative conditions such
as arthritis or spinal instability.
Chiropractors are prepared to diagnose health care problems and treat problems that can be treated
by chiropractic care. They refer patients to other health care specialists, when appropriate.
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