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Although the Bay Area boasts an impressive number of alternative health care practitioners, choice can breed confusion. After all, most consumers are accustomed to seeing a doctor with standardized medical training and
credentials. Not so in the newer universe of alternative medicine, where such measuring sticks aren't always available.
So we polled more than a hundred respected alternative health care practitioners throughout the Bay Area, asking them to whom they would go for treatment~be it in acupuncture and Oriental medicine, aromatherapy,
blended care, chiropractic, homeopathy, massage and bodywork, or yoga. (Biofeedback and naturopathy are not included here, simply because no recommendations
came our way.) The practitioners who made our final list were muloskeletal complaints to chiropractors. The discipline is similar to some forms of bodywork: practitioners manipulate the spine to correct vertebral alignment problems known as subluxations. Chiropractors must be DCs (Doctors of Chiropractic)~meaning that they have completed four years of postgraduate education and are certified by the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners.