How can a Chiropractic Neurologist and an MD work together?
Chiropractic Neurologists often serve as consultants to medical doctors, third party payers, and other chiropractors, especially in the treatment of functional type of disabilities. That is to say, conditions in which ablative or physiological lesions are not apparent. Medical neurologists may choose to refer to a Chiropractic Neurologist when the diagnostics are inconclusive and/or the latest medications are not producing the desired symptomatic relief. It is under these circumstances that the functional aspect of the nervous system deserving of a more critical consideration. After consluting with the patient, the Chiropractic Neurologist may make specific recommendation to the referring medical doctor regarding therapy or treatment for the patient.
