Fundamentals of Chiropractic Exam
Questions With All Correct Answers
2024 Update
When was the Kung Fou Document written? - Answer -2700 BCE
What was the Nei Jing and the Yellow Emperor? - Answer -An internal
medicine/manipulation study ordered by the first emperor of China
Yellow Emperor: the first Chinese Emperor
Mentioned manipulation as a part of good health care.
Who was Hippocrates and what did he do and say relating to the spine? - Answer -
Father of Medicine
Recognized that subluxations (displacements) of the vertebrae have an effect on the
nervous system
Used several methods to reduce misalignments
EX: Succussion
a form of traction where the patient is suspended upside down and the treat shakes him
Recognized different degrees of displacement of the vertebrae and attempted correction
accordingly
Who was Avicenna (Ibn Sina)? - Answer -Greatest Muslim Philosopher and Physician
Greatest Medieval Physician
Doctors of Doctors
used a board to correct the spine
Who were the Bonesetters and describe the profession of bonesetting? - Answer -Art of
manipulation passed down through family members; manipulation of the spine
Stretched, massaged, and manipulated spines and the rest of the joints of the body
Who was Sir Percival Pott? - Answer -President of the British Medical Society (BMS)
Believed that all spinal malformations and problems stemmed from tuberculosis of the
spine (Pott's Disease)
When was the first chiropractic adjustment given, by whom, to whom, and where? -
Answer -Mr. Harvey Lillard
by D.D. Palmer
Sept. 1895
4th floor of the Ryan building in Davenport, Iowa
What was the difference between chiropractic and osteopathy? - Answer -Chiropractic
- concerned with nerve impulses
- specific manipulations based on a structural diagnosis
, Osteopathy
- rule of artery
- concerned with blood flow
- non-specific manipulations
When was the PSC founded? - Answer -Palmer School of Chiropractic
1897
by DD Palmer
When was the first ACA founded and by whom? - Answer -1922
by DD Palmer
What was the name of the first chiropractic textbook, when was it published, and who
were the authors? - Answer -Modernized Chiropractic by Langworthy, Smith, and
Paxton
When was Dr. D.D. Palmer born and where? - Answer -rural Pickering, Ontario, Canada
March 7, 1845
What was the name of the textbook written by Dr. D.D. Palmer, and when was it
published? - Answer -The Chiropractor's Adjuster in 1910
How many theories of chiropractic did D.D. Palmer have before his death? - Answer -3
Who was B.J. Palmer, D.C.? - Answer -son of D.D. Palmer
15th Palmer graduate
Naturopathy - Answer -Dr. Lust
Homeopathy - Answer -Dr. Samuel Hahnemann
Nature Cure - Answer -Henry Lindlahr
Naprapathy - Answer -Dr. Oakley Smith
Chiropractic - Answer -D.D. Palmer
Osteopathy - Answer -Andrew Taylor Still
Christian Science - Answer -Mary Baker Eddy
Physical Culture - Answer -Benar MacFadden
7th Day Adventists - Answer -Ellen G. White
Questions With All Correct Answers
2024 Update
When was the Kung Fou Document written? - Answer -2700 BCE
What was the Nei Jing and the Yellow Emperor? - Answer -An internal
medicine/manipulation study ordered by the first emperor of China
Yellow Emperor: the first Chinese Emperor
Mentioned manipulation as a part of good health care.
Who was Hippocrates and what did he do and say relating to the spine? - Answer -
Father of Medicine
Recognized that subluxations (displacements) of the vertebrae have an effect on the
nervous system
Used several methods to reduce misalignments
EX: Succussion
a form of traction where the patient is suspended upside down and the treat shakes him
Recognized different degrees of displacement of the vertebrae and attempted correction
accordingly
Who was Avicenna (Ibn Sina)? - Answer -Greatest Muslim Philosopher and Physician
Greatest Medieval Physician
Doctors of Doctors
used a board to correct the spine
Who were the Bonesetters and describe the profession of bonesetting? - Answer -Art of
manipulation passed down through family members; manipulation of the spine
Stretched, massaged, and manipulated spines and the rest of the joints of the body
Who was Sir Percival Pott? - Answer -President of the British Medical Society (BMS)
Believed that all spinal malformations and problems stemmed from tuberculosis of the
spine (Pott's Disease)
When was the first chiropractic adjustment given, by whom, to whom, and where? -
Answer -Mr. Harvey Lillard
by D.D. Palmer
Sept. 1895
4th floor of the Ryan building in Davenport, Iowa
What was the difference between chiropractic and osteopathy? - Answer -Chiropractic
- concerned with nerve impulses
- specific manipulations based on a structural diagnosis
, Osteopathy
- rule of artery
- concerned with blood flow
- non-specific manipulations
When was the PSC founded? - Answer -Palmer School of Chiropractic
1897
by DD Palmer
When was the first ACA founded and by whom? - Answer -1922
by DD Palmer
What was the name of the first chiropractic textbook, when was it published, and who
were the authors? - Answer -Modernized Chiropractic by Langworthy, Smith, and
Paxton
When was Dr. D.D. Palmer born and where? - Answer -rural Pickering, Ontario, Canada
March 7, 1845
What was the name of the textbook written by Dr. D.D. Palmer, and when was it
published? - Answer -The Chiropractor's Adjuster in 1910
How many theories of chiropractic did D.D. Palmer have before his death? - Answer -3
Who was B.J. Palmer, D.C.? - Answer -son of D.D. Palmer
15th Palmer graduate
Naturopathy - Answer -Dr. Lust
Homeopathy - Answer -Dr. Samuel Hahnemann
Nature Cure - Answer -Henry Lindlahr
Naprapathy - Answer -Dr. Oakley Smith
Chiropractic - Answer -D.D. Palmer
Osteopathy - Answer -Andrew Taylor Still
Christian Science - Answer -Mary Baker Eddy
Physical Culture - Answer -Benar MacFadden
7th Day Adventists - Answer -Ellen G. White
