What if you were told you could have 60% less hospital admissions; 59% less days in the hospital if admitted; 62% less surgeries; 85% less pharmaceutical costs in your life time? Would you be interested? You must be shaking your head thinking, "how is that attainable?". What do I have to do?
A 7 year study involving thousands of patients found that patients who had chiropractors as their primary physician experienced these results. The utilization of a natural holistic non-invasive approach to your health offers many rewards for the patient. When we consider the latest data from the American Medical Association we find that 40% of all patient visits to the primary care physician concern back pain we can see the health relation. These 40% will receive NSAID's (non steroid anti-inflammatory drugs) as the first line of treatment. When we understand that the Center for Disease Control states that 125,000 people die each year in The U.S. due to complications of NSAID's, and untold more are hospitalized, we begin to appreciate the connection between back and joint pain and one's overall health.
Chiropractic is the number one alternative heath option in the U.S. today. The quantity of studies published in medical journals supporting effectiveness of Chiropractic both clinically and economically is astounding. Chiropractic deals with the biomechanical cause of pain. As an example , if your finger is stuck in a closed door you could of course inject your finger with anesthetic to stop the pain, or you could open the door and free your finger eliminating the cause of the pain. That in a nutshell is the difference in approaches between Chiropractic and Medicine. As we discussed in this article The AMA has stated that almost HALF of all primary care visits just need to open the door to free up the finger.
Chiropractic offers a drug free, non-invasive treatment with the focus in optimizing one's health, not fighting disease. Are there times when a patient may need medication? Yes. Are there times when a patient may need surgery? Yes. But not 100% of the time. No only about a little more than HALF of the time. It just makes sense with back and joint pain to begin with the treatment with the least side effects.
(Journal of Manipulation and Physiological Therapy, May 2007)