Chiropractic Offers Long-Term Benefits: This study concluded, “For patients with low-back pain in whom manipulation is not contraindicated, chiropractic almost certainly confers worthwhile, long-term benefit in comparison to hospital outpatient management.”
Chiropractic is Cost Effective: Compensation costs for work time lost were $68.38 for patients who received chiropractic care, compared to $668.39 for patients who received standard, non-surgical medical treatment. The number of work days...
Shorter Disability and Lower Related Costs: Temporary total disability for chiropractic patients was found to be 51.3 percent shorter than for patients receiving standard medical care. The direct costs of chiropractic physician services were...
Chiropractic medicine was significantly superior to traditional medical care, as measured by pain relieved, time off from work and money spent on treatment, British researchers discovered after a 10 year study that appeared in...
The Rand Study: RAND, a non-profit research organization, has completed three studies in the United States on chiropractic, with a fourth study currently underway. 1. The first study, a population-based estimate concerning the use...
The Manga Report: A major report on the effectiveness of chiropractic treatment was published in 1993. Tile report, entitled The Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Chiropractic Management of Low-Back Pain, was funded by the Ministry...
On December 8, 1994, The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, released an extensive study of diagnostic and treatment methods for acute low...
This research studied cost effectiveness, chiropractic education and training, safety issues and patient satisfaction. This 377 page document concluded that including chiropractic would have a positive influence on the health of the country.