Can't Decide What to Study Osteopathy, Chiropractic, Physiotherapy

Lbattosai on 31/08/2015 - 20:48

Osteopath's and Chiropractor's seem to make much more money then physio's, but I've been seeing a lot of complaints about Chiro's being witch doctors ect.

  • I had been leaning towards physio until I learned what my current physio was making and checked their wages on pay-scale.
  • Not much faith in chiro's after reading the thread on ozbargin.
  • Don't know much about Osteo's, but it seems Doctors have enough faith to refer patients to both Osteopaths and Physio's (Went to RMIT open day and all they did was lecture about the history of Osteopathy without giving any real information)

I'm up in the air about what to pick, would like your advice ozbargin!

http://www.payscale.com/research/AU/Job=Osteopath/Salary AU$46,219 - AU$125,657
http://www.payscale.com/research/AU/Job=Chiropractor/Salary AU$42,117 - AU$121,520
http://www.payscale.com/research/AU/Job=Physiotherapist/Sala… AU$46,066 - AU$83,967

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    Osteopathy
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    Chiropractic
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    Physiotherapy
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Comments

  • eve on 31/08/2015 - 21:06

    Do you just want to make money or do you actually care about health and people's wellbeing? (I don't mean it in a judgemental way, but more seriously.. to be able to give advice..)

    Have you thought about Occupational Therapy?

    • battosai on 31/08/2015 - 21:29

      I do care about peoples wellbeing, but I've never thought about OT, I've always been more interested in fitness which lead me into an interest in anatomy, muscles ect.

  • pointless martyr on 31/08/2015 - 21:07
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    Bargainography or maybe dealology

    • andymatter on 01/09/2015 - 09:39
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      pointless comment

      • pointless martyr on 01/09/2015 - 09:41

        Yours moreso - this is ozbargain..com.au , not ozcareercounselling.com.au

  • seraphim2017 on 31/08/2015 - 21:11

    choose what interests you. even a uni degree can drag on if you aren't interested. you spend a lot of time working over a life. all are living wages and if money is your main driver, become a surgeon.

  • jzdhgkd on 31/08/2015 - 21:48

    It sounds like you want to enter a career to help others and make a good amount of money whilst doing so. I would say any of these three would fit your criteria.

    If you want to make money, there's nothing wrong with going into osteopathy or chiropractic as a field regardless of their evidence base. The fact that those fields still make as money as they do means the general public doesn't necessarily share the same opinions as people on OzB. Given the direction that healthcare has been heading for a while (natural/organic/holistic/etc) I can imagine you'd be financially secure for the future.

  • cypher67 on 31/08/2015 - 22:32

    Take into account current and future demand for those jobs, what career opportunities they will present and how much their earning potential there is. I'm assuming you chose these because you like them.

  • Juvi on 01/09/2015 - 01:24

    Take a day to go an talk to someone already working in that profession, find out what are the things they like about the job, hate about it, and what the future holds for that career.. then make your choice. Good luck.

  • slow on 01/09/2015 - 08:30

    You also need to look into the fields that interests you. Do you want to work with science based treatments (eh physiotherapy) or would be happy peddling quackery and snake oil to vulnerable people (Chiropractic).

    You don't want to end up practising something that you don't believe in

    • ssx on 01/09/2015 - 09:18

      Not all chiros are quacks. Some are actually amazing at what they do.

  • imissbeans on 01/09/2015 - 08:45
    +1

    My vote goes to Physiotherapy, but I'm biased because I am one. It's backed by years of scientific based research. I really enjoyed the anatomy and physiology classes at uni. Plenty of jobs have been available since I finished but they say the average number of years a physiotherapist spends in the profession is around 7 years, which could mean finding work is relatively easy. And there are many avenues for treatment, eg clinical, paediatrics, cardiopulmonary, sports, animal (with further study), occupational rehab… Goodluck!

    • andymatter on 01/09/2015 - 09:40

      Why only 7 years?

      • imissbeans on 01/09/2015 - 10:08

        That was the figure people were saying when I was studying. I think in clinical physiotherapy you can burn out easily and get injuries from manual therapy if you don't look after the way you practise. I am taking a break after being in the industry for 6-7 years. But the great thing is that I can return when I'm ready.

      • imissbeans on 01/09/2015 - 10:15

        Actually in 2012, the official average number of years a physiotherapist works in clinical physiotherapy was 12.

  • andy19363 on 01/09/2015 - 09:25

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3896731/

    enjoy…..

    Results

    In 2012, the number of physiotherapists working in the private sector was 2.9 times larger than that of chiropractic, and 7.8 times that of the osteopathic profession. The total number of services provided by chiropractors, physiotherapists, and osteopaths increased steadily over the past 15 years. For the majority of this period, chiropractors provided more services than the other two professions. The average number of services provided by chiropractors was approximately two and a half times that of physiotherapists and four and a half times that of osteopaths.

    However….. I would read the rest of the article……

    • cypher67 on 02/09/2015 - 14:58

      Sorry meant to +ve vote you but accidentally clicked neg and It wont let me correct it. Can 2 people please help me out and fix this injustice

      • andy19363 on 02/09/2015 - 16:08

        I'll survive :-)

    • battosai on 02/09/2015 - 19:45

      Good read!

  • 2esc on 27/01/2022 - 23:57

    I have always got more benefit from Chiropractor's and Osteopath's maybe I've had bad luck with physio's ive had no real benefit just wasted my money.

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