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 What are our patients saying..?

This is Australia’s largest health review for parents.

What Patients Love About Chiropractic

Findings from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey, “the most recent source providing data on the use of complementary health care approaches by adults in the United States,” reveals why patients utilize chiropractic and what they value most. Published Dec. 1, 2017
The survey provides data on lifetime (54.6 million; 24%) and 12-month (19.1 million; 8.4%) utilization of chiropractic and various socio-demographic characteristics. But the most intriguing data illuminates the primary reasons for visiting a DC and the perceived health and wellness benefits received by chiropractic users:

Reasons for Visiting a DC
For general wellness / disease prevention: 43.6%
To improve energy: 16.3%
To improve athletic or sports performance: 15.4%
To improve immune function: 11.4%
To improve memory or concentration: 5.3%

Benefits of Chiropractic
Improves overall health or makes feel better: 66.9%
Helps to sleep better: 41.9%
Helps to reduce stress level or to relax: 40.2%
Makes it easier to cope with health problems: 38.5%
Gives a sense of control over own health: 32.5%
Helps to feel better emotionally: 27.4%
Improves attendance at job or school: 17.0%
Improves relationships with others: 13.3%

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Note: Chiropractic also motivated patients to

“exercise more regularly” (21.6%) and

“eat healthier” (10.7%),

emphasizing the DC’s value as a source of information/ guidance in these areas.

Overall Value in Maintaining Health and Well-Being

Very important: 47.9%
Somewhat important: 29.6%
Slightly important: 13.9%
Not at all important: 8.7%

Effectiveness in Helping Specific Health Problem

Helped a great deal: 64.5%
Helped some: 25.8%
Helped only a little: 6.1%
Didn’t help at all: 3.5%

Why Not Just See an MD?

Chiropractic combined with medical treatment would help: 64.8%
Chiropractic treats the cause and not just the symptoms: 61.9%
It is natural: 37.5%
Medical treatments do not work for specific health problem: 33.8%
Chiropractic focuses on the whole person: 24.9%
Medications cause side effects: 18.1%

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Complete survey findings appear in Spine, Dec. 1, 2017 issue (Adams J., et al.).
Page printed 14 February 2018 from:
http://www.dynamicchiropractic.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=58102&no_paginate=true&p_friendly=true&no_b=true

By Editorial Staff DG Feb 14 2018

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Chiropractic in USA called a DC is a Doctor of Chiropractic.

Terms used in Chiropractic from historic to present:

World Health Organisation (WHO) a branch of the United Nations, guidelines on basic training and safety in chiropractic effective 2005:

1 Spinal manipulative therapy

Includes all procedures where the hands or mechanical devices are used to mobilize, adjust, manipulate, apply traction, massage, stimulate or otherwise influence the spine and paraspinal tissues with the aim of influencing the patient’s health.

2 Subluxation. 

A lesion or dysfunction in a joint or motion segment in which alignment, movement integrity and/or physiological function are altered, although contact between joint surfaces remains intact. It is essentially a functional entity, which may influence biomechanical and neural integrity.This definition is different from the current medical definition, in which subluxation is a significant structural displacement, and therefore visible on static imaging studies.

3 Subluxation complex (vertebral)

A theoretical model and description of the motion segment dysfunction, which incorporates the interaction of pathological changes in nerve, muscle, ligamentous, vascular and connective tissue.

As a health care service, chiropractic offers a conservative management approach and, although it requires skilled practitioners, it does not always need auxiliary staff and therefore generates minimal add‐on costs. Therefore, one of the benefits of chiropractic may be that it offers potential for cost‐effective management of neuromusculoskeletal disorders (1, 2, 3).

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