“So the long and the short of it is that chiropractors have a more expansive diagnostic education, while physical therapists have an intervention- or therapeutic-based education. While chiropractors can provide services such as rehabilitative exercise and modality treatments, their main form of treatment remains the manipulation. Physical therapists may provide manual therapy-like techniques to their patients, but therapeutic exercise, modalities and activity modification remain the foundation of physical therapy practice.”
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