Save yourself from a dying profession and avoid ch...

Save yourself from a dying profession and avoid chiropractic altogether, not just this school.

What profession saddles you with crippling lifelong debt, provides a negligible return on investment, garners no respect from the medical community, and even struggles to agree on its own identity? Chiropractic.

If you doubt this profession's stability, simply read all the other reviews (here and elsewhere). Many of these positive reviews aren't even from students or chiropractors.

DEBT: Without assistance, you are guaranteed to graduate with AT LEAST $160k of debt. Many students will excitedly begin their careers with $200k+ of debt, a <4 years doctorate degree, and dreams of a financially successful life. This is certainly more a dream than reality. Even the American Chiropractic Association itself reported that the current average salary of an associate, independent of age or experience, is roughly $65,000. Your other career option of owning your own practice will require at least 5+ years to even become profitable, and many more (if you survive) to even get "established". During this time, you ll barely chip away at the accrued interest of those aforementioned loans.

ETHICS: Additionally, you ll be devoting all your time outside the office to shameful marketing tactics: school screenings, health fairs, holiday specials, presentations, and office drop-ins. As an associate, I felt constantly pressured to recommend bloated treatment plans, cut back my time with patients, and emphasize prepay tactics. Wellness care is pushed on everyone, but in reality most patients would benefit more from a monthly massage or personal training appointment. Half (if not more) of the profession practices in ethically grey areas - if not outright malpractice: "Chiro mills" or personal injury practices, for example. Conventions are saturated with chiro's quite literally bragging about their "daily numbers", instead of how many patients they successfully treat. Chiropractic "success" is based on sales.

"SCIENCE": Chiropractic was founded on the hypothesis that spinal misalignments are the root of all disease: Look well to the spine for the causes of disease . Even not-so-modern science debunks this philosophy, and to NYCC s credit, they have mostly abandoned the "subluxations cause all disease" concept. However, many schools still teach some variation of this idea, which has resulted in a heavily polarized profession and lots of deserved mistrust from the rest of the medical community. I once had a patient describe how her last chiropractor told her he cured cancer with a series of adjustments. Chiropractic lacks consistency: one chiro may instruct you to avoid vaccines while another down the street tries to sell you a treatment plan on a PEMF device.

EDUCATION: Admission requirements are a joke for a profession always hoping to be taken seriously by the rest of the medical community. No standardized testing or GPA requirements. You literally don't even need a completed undergraduate degree. As for academic rigor, I specifically recall a common phrase being repeated among students when I was in school: C s and D s make DC s . A DC degree is the fastest way to a doctorate (3.75 years); a true medical degree is one of the longest paths to a doctorate (4 years + 3-5 years residency). Chiropractic colleges love to compare the two like they are academically or professionally equivalent.

REPETITIVE: You will dream about diagnosing a variety of pathologies and conditions but in reality 90% of your patients will be mechanical joint pains due to inactivity and/or poor lifestyle choices.

FUTURE: The few accurate aspects of manual manipulation are being adopted by other real medical professions such as PT s and Ortho's, so the future for chiropractors is bleak. Especially as manipulation classes continue to be integrated into PT and orthopaedic programs. Reimbursement rates are decreasing every year as insurance companies crack down on the profession due to ethically questionable practices.

Avoid chiropractic.