Story: Alternative health therapies

Chiropractor

Chiropractor

Chiropractors treat the spine, mainly through the application of pressure by hand. This is chiropractor Filipo Lava treating a client in 1993.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP-1993-4194
Photograph by John Nicholson

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Kerryn Pollock, 'Alternative health therapies - Chiropractic, osteopathy and massage', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/27942/chiropractor (accessed 28 September 2023)

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 6 Apr 2018