What is chiropractic?

Chiropractic is a health profession concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disorders of the muscular and skeletal systems, and the effects of these disorders on the nervous system and several health. There is emphasis on manual treatments, including spinal manipulation.

Conditions that benefit from chiropractic

Headache
Disc problems
Low back pain
Neck pain
Arm and leg pain
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Join and muscle pain
Auto, sports, and work injury

Is chiropractic safe?

People who are injured by chiropractic is 1 to 2 million. You are more likely to be struck by lightning. As compared with 106,000 deaths per year from non error and adverse side effects of medications, 12,000 from unnecessary surgery, 80,000 per year from hospital infections.

Are there any studies that show chiropractic is effective?

In a recent study patients with low back pain reported an average of 52.9% reduction in pain and disability after 1 month patient with neck pain reported a 53.8% reduction after 1 month of treatment. These results would indicate that chiropractic manipulation is beneficial for the treatment of mechanical neck and low back pain.