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This is for the State of Pennsylvania:

"As for DCs, their scope of practice primarily focuses on chiropractic care and manipulation of the musculoskeletal system. While they may have limited lab ordering rights related to their area of expertise, the extent of their authority to order laboratory tests may be more restricted compared to medical doctors."

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This sounds right. Neither can a chiropractor prescribe any medicines. In other words, anything involved in medical diagnosis or treatments, a medical doctor is the one you’d want to go with and that’s what your insurance will process.

My take is, if you can understand his book “great bones”, that’s great. If not, then maybe in a face to face meeting he could explain a lot more to you in a layman’s language. What’s more, in case your endo is more narrow minded with regards to therapy, there might be of value to listen to some of his opinion. At the same time, there are many bone specialists out there from whom you could get a comprehensive medical evaluation and opinions.