Rehabilitation Chiropractor: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

Rehabilitation is the discipline focused on restoring a patient's functional abilities to pre-injury or pre-disease status. Functional abilities are defined as those activities in one's daily life, work, or sports and recreational activities that an individual participates in. Relevant impairments (e.g. strength, endurance, flexibility, motor control, etc.) are often intermediate goals of rehabilitation, but the final goal of successful care is return to participation in activities in which the patient was successful before the onset of the injury or disease. Essential to a rehabilitation approach is a focus on patient-centered outcomes such as independence and self-management or self-care skills.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 956 of 3,788 active primary-taxonomy records, or 25.2%, carry the sole-proprietor flag in NPPES. This self-reported field can help describe how records are organized, but it is an imperfect proxy for private practice and does not by itself establish ownership, employment arrangement, or independence.

By state

New NPI registrations by year

Counts reflect the year each NPI was first issued, among records still active today. The final year is partial: this data covers through 2026-01-11.

Data notes

• The sole-proprietor field is self-reported by the provider in NPPES and is an imperfect proxy for private practice.
• A sole-proprietor count shown as <11 is suppressed: the true value is below 11, which could include zero.
• NPPES records are administrative identifiers, not a direct census of practicing clinicians or practices.
• Taxonomy records may not capture every clinician providing rehabilitation-focused chiropractic care and may not reflect a current practice focus.
• State totals reflect NPI registration data and do not measure patient volume, service locations, or full-time clinical capacity.
• Providers are counted once, by their primary taxonomy code only.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Data Dissemination file, FOIA-disclosable public data under CMS-6060-N. Aggregated by Hero EMR on 2026-08-03; deactivated NPIs excluded; specialty assigned from the primary taxonomy code (NUCC 25.1). Counts below 11 are suppressed. Individual providers are never published. All provider data pages.

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