Culture, Daily Living, & Adjustment

I would like to thank you very much for your guide. It is very informative, and I particularly appreciated your analysis of the types of people who will adapt well to life in China. I am kind of in two of the categories for which you predict success in that I am older and I also recently completed a BA and an MA. So I have some characteristics of someone approaching retirement, and also of a recent graduate.

But I can see from your guide that thriving and succeeding in China will take some effort and, although my health is generally very good, there is a potential problem I have to find a way around.

I need regular, basically monthly, chiropractic adjustments of my cervical spine or otherwise I will suffer constant headaches. I don't function all that well when I am in that condition. I would be open to trying acupuncture instead, but still the thought of not having a chiropractor for a backup is scary.

I can't find many chiropractors in China at least with English websites. Hong Kong and Shanghai are about it. My question then, are there chiropractors out there who I am missing because they don't have websites in English? Guangzhou is one city I am interested in. Are there any chiropractors in Guangzhou?

Thank you very much for your excellent and thought provoking guide.

We are delighted that you found the guide to be particularly helpful.

I wish I had good news for you in regard to chiropractic care but I don't. Chiropractic is not a recognized healthcare profession in China. It is, of course, possible that you could find a foreigner in Guangzhou who also happens to be a chiropractor, and you'd have to explore that through expat discussion lists or forums, but there aren't any established chiropractic practices barring Hong Kong and perhaps Beijing and Shanghai as you have already discovered.

I never tried acupuncture but, as you also pointed out, many people swear by it for the very conditions typically treated by chiropractors back home.

Best of luck to you.

Thanks again, I'm not sure about going off to teach in a foreign country, but if I do, it will be to somewhere they speak Spanish and have chiropractors. Also as a result of reading your guide, I have come to the conclusion that it would be best if I worked on improving one of the languages I already know, rather than trying to learn to learn a 4th language at 60 years of age. Thanks

There's an American chiropractor at Shanghai East International Medical Center his name is Dr. Gregory Gipson.
His phone number (8621) 5879-9999 and his website is http://www.seimc.com.cn. Hope this helps.

I had to have regular Chiropractic adjustments while in the US twice a month. Here in Beijing I have used a Chinese massage clinic and the results are just as good as Chiropractic. I never would have believed it. These "doctors" work up and down the spine for about an hour, and it costs 60 RMB. Heckuva deal. I believe these type of clinics are widespread throughout China, or so I am told.

Malcolm Ritchie is an Australian trained chiropractor. He uses a gentle, low force technique. He is the Director of Chiropractic at the Puhua International Clinic in Beijing. His contact telephone number is +86-153-3000-3980.

In Guangzhou there's also a Bellaire International Clinic where Dr. H.K. Chen practices chiropractic. He's really good, American trained.

My girlfriend hurt her back this year and he's been a lifesaver for her. Not cheap though, about 700 RMB per session but that includes acupuncture, physiotherapy, and cracking. Thank God GZteacher23 is now GZbanker25 or we'd have a hard time paying for it.