This study really sums up the effectiveness of chiropractic care in general. Read it here- http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=18004552. The short story is that an HMO in the Midwest decided to make 75% of it’s portal of entry practitioners chiropractors. I’m sure everyone must have thought, what do those crazy bone crackers know about anything but the spine, well a lot as it turns out.

Chiropractors have a much greater amount of training in musculoskeletal medicine than M.D.’s (and we are trained to recognize many other conditions that need to be referred out.) Keep in mind that approx 85% of people present to their MD with musculoskeletal conditions.

Bottom line is this excerpt from the study which is very telling-

“Results of the study demonstrate clinical and cost utilization decreases based on 70,274 member-months over a seven-year period. Differences in utilization include: 60.2 percent decrease in-hospital admissions, 59.0 percent decrease in hospital days, 62.0 percent decrease outpatient surgeries and procedures and 85 percent decrease in pharmaceutical costs when compared with conventional medicine IPA performance for the same HMO product in the same geography and time frame.”

A 62% decrease in surgery! 85% less drug costs! Wow.

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