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Chiropractic practice, begun in the late 1800s when D. D. Palmer established the first school of chiropractic medicine, is a fusion of osteopathic treatment and so-called magnetic healing (the notion that a vital force in each of us enables the body to heal itself). Chiropractic practitioners believe that articular subluxations can inhibit this vital force and, thereby, cause illnesses. Manipulation techniques are thought to correct such misalignments, enabling the vital force to flow freely and to cure the disease. By 1925, more than 80 chiropractic schools had been established, and, today, more than 60,000 chiropractors currently practice in North America. Over the decades, however, a clash of ideologies split chiropractics into two camps…