Chiropractors treat patients who are ill or in pain without the use of drugs or surgery. They use manual treatments and even physical therapy treatments, exercise nutritional and lifestyle modifications also to correct the problems causing the pain.
No they cannot perform surgery.
To perform surgery is to operate.
Chiropractors specialize in treating patients without drugs or surgery through the chiropractic adjustment and adjunctive modalities. Jennie Yates, Chiropractor CoreHealth of Clearwater LLC
Pediatricians may do minor procedures, but they don't due surgeries in the typical sense. There is an entire sub-specialty field of surgery called pediatric surgery that deals with surgery in children.
a word that means to do surgery is operate
does the veteran hospital perform laser surgery
Cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons perform coronary bypass surgery.
Depending on your situation, consulting a chiropractor could help relieve back pain. But a chiropractor will recommend you see a spine specialist about having back surgery.
A DO is a Doctor of Osteopathic medicine. A chiropractor is a Doctor of Chiropractic. In the beginning (early 1900's) both Chiropractors and Osteopaths treated the body through spinal manipulation. Now Osteopaths have joined the American Medical Association and currently prescribe drugs and perform surgery. While they are trained in spinal alignment and manipulation it can be difficult to find an Osteopath that performs this procedure. Chiropractors are an independent group and remain commited to treating the body without drugs or surgery through spinal manipulation. Jennie Yates, Chiropractor CoreHealth of Clearwater
operate
no
Specialist radiologists generally do not perform surgery. Surgeons or doctors who do radiology may perform surgery. Radiology does not normally involve a knife and thus surgery, unless referring to laser or gamma rays, in which case the medical actions performed may be referred to as surgery.
Check with your county. However, most require a licensed doctor, which chiropractors are not.