Occupation Atlaschiropractor
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/49e4e358-8ba3-4a05-8ef9-abb73156f5f7
chiropractor
Chiropractors are responsible for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disorders related to the neuromusculoskeletal system and the effects of these disorders on general health. They are independent primary health care professionals.
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Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
SRISocial · Realistic · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social5.56
- R Realistic5.53
- I Investigative4.77
- C Conventional3.55
- E Enterprising2.13
- A Artistic1.34
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Chiropractors (29-1011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (61)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- adhere to organisational code of ethics
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advise on pregnancy
- advise on rehabilitation exercises
- apply clinical chiropractic competencies in sport
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply massage therapy
- apply person-centred care
- apply specific manual chiropractic techniques
- apply supports for spinal adjustment
- assess chiropractic intervention
- assist patients with rehabilitation
- chiropractic terminology
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- conduct chiropractic examination
- conduct neurological examination
- conduct physical examinations
- develop chiropractic services
- develop chiropractic treatment plans
- develop therapeutic relationships
- diagnose musculoskeletal conditions
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- exercise physiology
- formulate a treatment plan
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- interact with healthcare users
- interpret findings from medical examinations
- interpret medical images
- interpret medical results
- maintain chiropractic equipment
- manage chiropractic professional equipment
- manage chiropractic staff
- medical informatics
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- musculoskeletal anatomy
- neuroanatomy
- neurology
- neuropathology
- neurophysiology
- observe record keeping standards in chiropractics
- operate medical imaging equipment
- orthopaedics
- perform chiropractic examinations
- perform clinical neurophysiological examinations
- perform orthopaedic examinations
- post-process medical images
- prepare patients for surgery
- prescribe healthcare products
- prescribe treatment for musculoskeletal injuries
- provide chiropractic diagnosis
- provide clinical chiropractic neurology
- provide information on chiropractic treatment outcomes
- provide medication information
- provide neuromusculoskeletal therapy
- rehabilitation
- undertake clinical chiropractic research
- undertake healthcare examination
- write reports on neurological tests
Optional (47)
- advise on healthy lifestyles
- advocate health
- analyse X-ray imagery
- apply acupuncture
- biomechanics
- chiropody
- collect healthcare user's general data
- conduct health related research
- contribute to quality physiotherapy services
- contribute to the rehabilitation process
- develop plans related to client discharge
- develop plans related to the transfer of care
- educate on preventing injuries
- educate on the prevention of illness
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
- endocrinology
- follow-up after patients' surgery
- geriatrics
- interpret electroencephalograms
- interpret evoked potentials records
- kinesiology
- kinetics
- maintain treatment records
- manage acute pain
- manage clinical risk
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage the neuropsychiatric sequelae of stroke
- neuropharmacology
- obtain healthcare user's medical status information
- orthopaedic conditions
- orthopaedic treatment alternatives
- prescribe treatments related to surgical procedures
- promote health in specialised care
- provide health education
- provide learning support in healthcare
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychology
- radiation physics in healthcare
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- rehabilitation of all organ systems
- somatic integrated modalities
- supervise chiropractic students
- therapeutic massage
- treat neurological disorders
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use functional neuroimaging
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 61 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
specialist chiropractor
24 shared · 47 more of its ownapply clinical chiropractic competencies in sport, conduct chiropractic examination, manage chiropractic staff, neuroanatomy
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occupational therapist
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speech and language therapist
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