Attaining Board-Certification in any medical specialty is an arduous process. It requires years of postgraduate specialty training and long, hard hours of study. To become Board-Certified, the physician must first demonstrate successful completion of a rigorous postgraduate specialty training program, then the candidate physician-specialist is required to pass the pertinent Specialty Board examinations.

To become a Board-Certified Chiropractic Orthopedist, Dr. Zilahy completed a 4-year postdoctoral Orthopedic Specialty training program through the National College of Chiropractic. Dr. Zilahy then successfully completed the two-part Orthopedic Specialty examinations, administered by the American Board of Chiropractic Orthopedists. Part One consisted of a 400-question written examination, and Part Two consisted of a comprehensive oral and practical examination administered by experienced Board-Certified Chiropractic Orthopedists.

Chiropractic Orthopedics is defined as that branch of Chiropractic Medicine that includes the continued acquisition of knowledge relative to both normal functions and diseases of the human body as they relate to the bones, joints, capsules, discs, muscles, ligaments, tendons, their complete neurological components, referred organ systems and contiguous tissues; the development and perfection of skills relative to health maintenance when such exists and when not, the investigation, historical review, physical detection, correlative diagnosis development and complete management of any disorder within the bounds defined herein; the delivery of the combined knowledge and skill on a primary basis to patients who both need and desire this service to the eventual outcome of remission, whenever resoluton is not readily achievable.