My wife is a physical therapist. She has described it to me in the past the difference between Physios and chiros. I'll have to ask her again to properly explain it here, but knowing how forgetful I am, I'll take a crack at explaining it now and come back later if I remember to ask her.
You see a chiropractor as a "quick fix" to relieve the pain. You have to keep going back because they don't really give you a long term fix for your ailment. Sometimes a quick fix is all a person needs and they don't have to go back.
You see a physical therapist because they work on getting you better so they don't have to see you again once the treatment is over. A treatment usually consists of more than one visit because you can't and shouldn't expect to have one visit completely fix you. Either the treatment works and you don't need to go back unless you reinjure yourself, you have an injury that will never 100% heal, or you need different type of treatment from either the same, or a different physio.
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