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Location: Where ever there's sunshine! | I've been tossing this degree around in my head for several years. A doctorate degree used to absolutely terrify me. I'm looking to see if there's any difference in courses when going specifically to work on horses instead of people? Suggestion on schools? Anything!
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Location: Texas | I graduate from Chiropractic school in December and will be done with my animal certification in August. In order to be licensed by the American Veterinary Chiropractic Association, you must either be in, or have graduated from either vet school or chiro school. There is no chiropractic school specifically for animals, just a 6 month certification process. I have loved every second of school, even though it is very tough and time consuming. It is so rewarding helping people and animals and I highly recommend it if you're interested in a doctorate! |
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Location: The Frozen North | I'm a little unclear about what you are asking, but the approved options are to be a human chiropractor and then do equine certification or be a veterinarian and do additional certification. There is no degree specific to animal chiro only, they all build on a previous doctorate....ETA opps! somebody beat me to it 
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Location: Where ever there's sunshine! | Sorry for the confusion ladies. I know theres no animal chiro degree...yet lol I was just wanting to hear from some that were equine chiros and had their chiro degree. All I have around me to talk to are self taught and one that got certified by a vet, but has no degree. I know I want to go with the Human Chiro degree instead of a vet degree. Just looking for suggestions about how I should go about obtaining my degree ( make sure I take this class instead of that one, yadda yadda). |
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Location: Where ever there's sunshine! | Lbarrelracer08 - 2014-06-09 6:39 PM
I graduate from Chiropractic school in December and will be done with my animal certification in August. In order to be licensed by the American Veterinary Chiropractic Association, you must either be in, or have graduated from either vet school or chiro school. There is no chiropractic school specifically for animals, just a 6 month certification process. I have loved every second of school, even though it is very tough and time consuming. It is so rewarding helping people and animals and I highly recommend it if you're interested in a doctorate!
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Location: Texas | At Parker in Dallas where I am at, it is a 10 trimester program. It is a little over 3 years. As far as what classes to take, it's a very structured program. It's not like an undergrad program where you get to pick and choose what you are interested in for your degree. Everyone takes the same classes from tri to tri. When you get so far along in the program (tri 7) you can begin the animal certification process, which is outside of regular class. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Ok so I have a question, what do you do if you know someone is practicing chiropractic on horses and does not have a degree and is charging people for it? He goes to barrel races and charges for his services and has not went to any kind of school for it he isn't a vet or a chiropractor he doesn't even work . |
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| You must be able to declare yourself an equine chiropractor. I know several. |
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Location: Always on call..... | Casady - 2014-06-10 1:46 PM
Ok so I have a question, what do you do if you know someone is practicing chiropractic on horses and does not have a degree and is charging people for it? He goes to barrel races and charges for his services and has not went to any kind of school for it he isn't a vet or a chiropractor he doesn't even work .
You should turn that person into the state licensing boards for both chiropractic and veterinary medicine. Dependinig on the state they would get fined for practicing either of those without a license.
I know many people on here who don't share my sentiments on this topic, but "lay" people doing animal chiropractic without any credentials should be turned in. It is dangerous to perform manipulations without training in anatomy, physiology and differential diagnosis. Not every sore or lame horse needs chiropractic and sometimes chiropractic could make them worse. There is more to chiropractic than just the adjustments themselves. It is the knowledge behind when to adjust and what you are actually adjusting.
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Location: Always on call..... | I am also a human chiropractor with American Veterinary Chiropractic Association board certification. As everyone has said to be a board certified animal chiropractor you need to be either a human chiropractor (DC) or a veterinarian (DVM), then you take a post graduate course on animal chiropractic and then a certifying exam.
I went to chiropractic school in Kansas City - Cleveland Chiropractic, graduated in 2004. The program was three years. Similarly to the other poster our training was broken into trimesters (spring, summer and fall). Most chiro schools don't require a bachelors but you do have to have 90 undergraduate hours and to have taken certain science classes. Usually chemistry, organic chem, biochem, physics and biology classes. Check with whatever chiropractic school you are considering what their prerequistes are.
For animal chiropractic training I went to Options for Animals in Wellsville, KS. That was one week a month for 5 months.
My best friend is an equine vet who also went to the Options school and has the board certification. Both of us can verify that it is important for a vet or chiro to get that additional training in animal chiropractic. As a chiropractic I learned nothing about animal anatomy or diseases/lamenesses in school. My friend already knew that stuff but she didn't know how to perform adjustments. Even if someone is already a vet or chiro they still really aren't qualifed to perform animal chiropractic without that additional training.
Chiro school was tough and a lot of hard work but you can do it! I never considered getting any type of doctorate degree either when I was younger. I always thought that would be too much work or that I wasn't smart enough. One of my good friends in undergrad encouraged me to consider chiropractic. Getting my Doctor of Chiropractic degree showed me that you don't have to be "super smart" to go to professional school. You have to be dedicated and willing to work hard.
Chiro school was nice too because the class sizes were smaller, you got to work with professors/attendings one on one. Chiropractic is full of people who make that their second career choice. There were a lot of "non traditional" students. It wasn't a competitive environment, we all helped each other succeed in the classes. Lots of camraderie.
The only downside to chiropractic is that often you graduate and job prospects aren't that great. If you go to work for an established clinic you typically don't get paid well. I had my own practice, which was great in some ways but also really stressful. Especially the first couple of years when I didn't have a steady income coming in yet. You don't get much business training in chiro school either, so I really had no idea what I was doing when I started my own business! 
I was definitely glad I did the animal chiro training because that was my main income source the first couple of years. I ended up doing way more dog chiropractic than horse, but that was still pretty cool. Dogs are a lot easier to adjust and they respond really well to chiropractic too. I did the occassional cat, but cats don't really like to be adjusted much!  |
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| I just love the Masterson Method- all we do is relieve tension, and hey, if something decides to just slide back in- then oooo what a bonus! ;) |
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