Chiropractic Healing

Chiropractic is a healing therapy where manipulations are made to the spine and extremities in order to remove fixations to the joints, soft tissue and surrounding nerves. This type of correction restores normal joint motion and reduces any associated pain, irritation, and inflammation. 

As evidence supporting the effectiveness of chiropractic continues to emerge, health care consumers are turning in record numbers to chiropractic care -- a form of health care aimed primarily at enhancing a patient's overall health and well-being without the use of drugs or surgery. More than 30 million people visited doctors of chiropractic last year for a variety of conditions, and more and more medical doctors are referring their patients to doctors of chiropractic.

Just a few interesting facts on this increasingly popular form of health care:

• Chiropractic is the third largest doctoral-level health care profession after medicine and dentistry.
  
  
• In 1970, there were an estimated 13,000 doctors of chiropractic licensed in the United States. This number had increased to 40,000 in 1990 and to approximately 50,000 in 1994. Thus, there is roughly one doctor of chiropractic for every 5,000 United States residents. (AHCPR Publication No. 98-N002, December 1997)
• According to a study published in the November 11, 1998 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, approximately 11 percent of the population visited a doctor of chiropractic in 1997. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, today there are approximately 273 million people in the country. This translates into approximately 30 million patients who visited a doctor of chiropractic in 1997.

For more information about chiropractic visit the American Chiropractic Association   www.amerchiro.org

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