The history of the modern Chiropractic is the story of its long struggle, against strong opposition, to establish Chiropractic as a valid system of health-care because there are major philosophical and theoretical differences between the ways in which chiropractors and medical doctors treat back pain. However, Daniel David Palmer, in Davenport, USA opened the first School of Chiropractic in 1897 and it became extremely popular form of natural healing straight away and continues till present days. 

The word "chiropractic" is derived from the two Greek words "cheiros" and "praktikos", which together mean, "done by hand". Chiropractic was perfectly described in 1935 as “the science of palpating and adjusting the articulations of the human spinal column by hands only”. This is excellent statement, however, modern chiropractic assertions have not stopped at that and today Chiropractic is a drug-free, non-surgical branch of the healing arts, which consider man as an integrated being and give special attention to the physiological and biochemical aspects including structural, spinal, musculoskeletal, neurological, vascular, nutritional, emotional and environmental relationships.