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What is Chiropractic?

Subluxation / Adjustment?

Dr. Bolte's view as a Chiropractic Physican?

Do I first need to see my M.D.?

Does my Insurance cover?

Chiropractic education?

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WHAT IS CHIROPRACTIC?

Chiropractic (Greek: treatment by Hand) uses the hands in a natural non-evasive method of correcting the cause of nerve irritation, biomechanical dysfunction, postural alignment, and energy imbalance.  This approach arose as a separate profession from allopathic medicine in the United States in the 1890s.  Since the 1890s, Chiropractic Physicians have included many additional natural approaches of natural healing into its arena.

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WHAT IS A SUBLUXATION / ADJUSTMENT?

Subluxation is an abnormal function of a joint that can lead to a pinched nerve or blockage of nerve flow from the spine to the rest of the body causing pain and dis-ease to the area it innervates.

Adjustment:  a quick, non-forceful thrust to a subluxation or misaligned joint placing it back into its proper bio-mechanical function.  A Chiropractic Physician is extensively trained to perform this safely and effectively.

WHAT DOES BEING A CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN MEAN TO DR. BOLTE?

1. That in being a highly educated and well trained Primary Health Care Provider or Chiropractic Physician, it is a privilege to manage patient's state of well being through natural remedies and therapies to assist and support the bodies own innate (in born) healing properties to heal itself.
2. One should first seek a Chiropractic Physician to help the body through a natural realm prior to taking toxic drugs or opting for aggressive surgery.
3. It's important to understand that the body displays symptoms as a warning mechanism when in dis-ease or a state of dis-order to tell that person something is wrong with their state of health and they need care.  Beware, these symptoms are not the cause of dis-ease and treating these symptoms through toxic synthetic drugs just masks the problem or leaves the underlying problem uncorrected.  Dr. Bolte's approach is to use these symptoms as clues in discovering the underlying cause of his patient's health disorders so that correction or actual healing of the underlying  problem takes place.  Also, symptoms can be used as a barometer for how one is responding to a natural treatment program although, beware that when the symptoms have subsided this doesn't necessarily mean the cause of their condition has completely healed.
4. A Doctor should look at the body as a temple thus addressing the emotional, spiritual, bio-chemical, and structural aspects of the patient's health if he wishes to have a high success rate and achieve an optimal state of well-being for his or her patients.
5. Having the option of a plethora of natural approaches (Integrated Natural Medicines) along with the chiropractic adjustment, will greatly increase the likelihood of enhancing or restoring the bodies state of health through its own innate (in-born) healing potentials. 
6. See Doctor's Background.

DO I NEED TO SEE MY MEDICAL DOCTOR BEFORE SEEING A CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN?

No, a Chiropractic Physician is a Primary Health Care Provider so a referral is not necessary.  But, don’t think he will prescribe drugs or surgery; he will instead make the body take care of itself!

DOES MY INSURANCE COVER CHIROPRACTIC CARE?

Yes, and since Chiropractors are considerd Primary Health Care Providers you do not need  a referral by a medical doctor. Chiropractic care is covered by: 

~Auto Insurance companies
~Workers Compensation
~Many individual and PPO health insurance plans. 

Dr. Bolte is a Participating Provider for: 

~Blue Cross / Blue Shield   
~Medicare.                         

HOW WELL IS A CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN EDUCATED?

Similar in many ways to the education received by a medical doctor.  The essential comprising difference is that medical schools have extensive studies in pharmacology and surgery and chiropractic schools have extensive studies in nutrition, physiotherapy, and chiropractic. Chiropractic is the 2nd largest Primary Health Care Provider in the U.S. with its natural approach to healing the cause of disease.

In 1989 Dr. John Bolte graduated from "National College of Chiropractic" the number one academically ranked chiropractic college in the United States at that time.  see Doctor's Background.

Hours Required To Receive Each Degree

Anatomy                              520                                          508

Physiology                           420                                          326

Pathology                             205                                          401

Chemistry                            300                                          325

Bacteriology                        130                                          114

Physical Diagnosis              420                                          324

Neurology                            320                                          112

Psychiatry                             65                                           144

Obstetrics/Gynecology        65                                            198

Orthopedics                          225                                          125

Radiology                             217                                          148

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Total comparative hrs.=     2,887                                      2,725

Total hours
including other subjects =  4,785                                      4,248

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

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