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Chiropractic is the fastest
growing primary health care profession
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It is the second largest primary
health care delivery system in the world
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Chiropractic is safe and
essentially painless. It restores health, relieves
pain in a drugless, knifeless, natural holistic
method.
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Doctors of Chiropractic are
primary health care providers, according to the
center for Studies in Health Policy, “The DC can
provide all three levels of primary care
interventions and therefore is a primary care
provider, as are MDs and DOs.
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Doctors of Chiropractic receive
extensive, demanding professional education on par
with other medical doctors.
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Chiropractic is recognized by
governmental health care programs such as Medicare,
Medicaid, Federal Employees Health Care Benefits
Programs, Federal Workers’ Compensation and all
state worker’s compensation programs.
How Does Chiropractic Work?
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Chiropractic is based on
scientific principles of the nervous system.
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Gray’s Anatomy states “The
nervous system controls and coordinates all of the
other organs and structures, and relates the
individual to his environment.”
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The spine provides two functions:
1. Allow for freedom of movement
2. To house and protect the spinal cord
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When the vertebrae of the spine
become misaligned (subluxated) through trauma or
repetitive injury, two major consequences will
result:
1. The range of motion becomes limited
2. Spinal nerves emerging from the spinal cord are
compromised
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Interruption of nerve flow can
eventually lead to pain, disability, and overall
decrease in the quality of life
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Through the adjustment of the
subluxation, the doctor of chiropractic restores
normal nerve expression
Is Chiropractic Safe?
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Chiropractic care is
non-invasive; therefore, the body’s response to
chiropractic care is far more predictable than its
reactions to drug treatments or surgical procedures.
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In 1979 the New Zealand
Government published a study on chiropractic that
said,
“The conspicuous lack of evidence that chiropractors
cause harm or allow harm to occur through neglect of
medical referral can be taken to mean only one
thing: that chiropractors have on the whole an
impressive safety record.”
A 1989 Report in the Western Journal of Medicine
found that patients of chiropractors were 3 times
happier with their care than patients of family
practice physicians.
In 1987, a report in the medical journal Spine,
found that half of the people with back pain go to
orthopedic surgeons. The other half go to
chiropractors.
A 1993 Prevention Magazine reader survey ranked
chiropractic spinal manipulation as the fourth most
effective headache remedy. The 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th,
and 8th ranked remedies were also techniques that a
chiropractor would apply or recommend to headache
patients.
