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Chiropractic?

Act On Your Passion For Helping Others

As patient care becomes increasingly more complex, chiropractic offers a hands-on approach to help people reach and maintain excellent health and wellbeing, without the use of drugs or surgery.

Chiropractic as a career

Chiropractic seeks whole-person care and relies on the body’s natural ability to heal itself.

The human body is incredibly intelligent, however, life is a series of habits and behaviours, that don’t always help or support our bodies to be as healthy as they can be. Chiropractic helps to restore function to your nervous system with a chiropractic adjustment.

Because when your nervous system isn’t communicating messages around your body correctly, it can affect a number of things, including the way your body feels and moves, various aches and pains and the way your brain and other organs function.

Chiropractic is a drug and surgery free approach to good health concerned with the diagnosis, management and prevention of disorders of the neuromusculoskeletal system (spine). Chiropractors focus on the detection and correction of abnormal spinal function and its subsequent effect on how the nervous system controls and coordinates the body.

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97%
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24% of patients see their chiropractic practitioner for maintenance care or general wellbeing.
97% of patients believe that chiropractic care supports general health.
63.7% of patients reported that they were more interested in improving their health than simply removing symptoms.
Two-thirds of chiropractors agree with traditional chiropractic values.

SOURCES:

  1. Chiropractic Workforce Study: Australia. Eaton, Bonello, Green, Graham, Fernandez-Caamano, Strkalj. Macquarie University, Sydney. March 2012.
  2. Chiropractic Profession Consensus Project, CCGPP, 2008

Job opportunities for chiropractors

Chiropractors are in great demand, and there are excellent job opportunities for new graduates. Many chiropractors start their own practices and set their own hours, allowing you to enjoy a great work life balance. With attractive starting salaries, and the opportunity to travel the world with your skills, there has never been a better time to become a chiropractor. Please note that the ACC has applied for accreditation with the Council on Chiropractic Education Australasia.

In 2018, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics rated the job growth outlook for chiropractors to 2026 at 12% (faster than average).

Accreditation

The Australian Chiropractic College (ACC) is registered with the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), who are responsible for regulating and assuring the quality of all providers of higher education in Australia. The ACC is registered with TEQSA to deliver a Bachelor of Chiropractic (Australian Qualifications Framework Level 7), and a Diploma of Health Science (Australian Qualifications Framework Level 5).

The ACC’s Bachelor of Chiropractic is an approved programme with conditions by the Chiropractic Board of Australia. It is also an accredited with conditions by the Council on Chiropractic Education Australasia.

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