In general, the Chiropractor specialty is very male-centric with 72% of providers reporting as male as compared to 27% reporting as female. People living in California, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York enjoy living in one of the 5 most popular states/territories where Chiropractor providers practice. In all, there are 134,161 registered Chiropractor providers in the United States with over 12,165 of those located in California alone while around 9,563 chose to practice in Texas.
Chiropractor providers have been assigned the 111N00000X taxonomy code in the NPI registry, which is a Level II Classification. Click here for more information about medical specialty types.
Overall, Chiropractor specialists practice in 57 different states/territories and can be categorized into 11 different Chiropractor sub-specialties: Independent Medical Examiner (Chiropractic), Internist (Chiropractic), Neurology (Chiropractic), Nutrition (Chiropractic), Occupational Health (Chiropractic), Orthopedic (Chiropractic), Pediatric Chiropractor, Radiology (Chiropractic), Rehabilitation (Chiropractic), Sports Physician (Chiropractic), and Thermography (Chiropractic), among others.
A provider qualified by a Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.), licensed by the State and who practices chiropractic medicine -that discipline within the healing arts which deals with the nervous system and its relationship to the spinal column and its interrelationship with other body systems.