Chiropractic care has become so commonplace that it’s hard to remember a time when it wasn’t. In the late 1990’s, 42 percent of the U.S. population used alternative healing modalities; 31 percent of the visits within that realm were visits to chiropractors. In a study of 131 chiropractor in six regions, Ian Coulter et. al […]
The use of chiropractic care in children has been on the rise for decades. In a recent study, Lee et. al predicted that pediatric patients made around 30 million visits to chiropractors in 1997, a 50 percent increase within the previous four years. In a more recent study, Joel Alcantara, Jeanne Ohm and Derek Kunz […]
In a systematic review, Cheryl Hawk et. al assessed chiropractic care as a therapeutic treatment for patients with nonmusculoskeletal conditions. This review looked at chiropractic care as a whole, not just spinal manipulation, and looked at studies and papers published in PubMed, Ovid, Mantis, Index to Chiropractic Literature and CINAHL. The researchers reviewed 179 papers […]
In a study published in Brain Sciences Magazine in April 2020, a group of scientists found that spinal manipulation after a stroke showed promising results. The study, by Muhammad Samran Navid et al, measured N30 amplitude in 17 male participants between the ages of 41 and 65. After a single session of spinal adjustment, N30 […]
A new study is a first step in assessing and improving chiropractic care strategies for U.S. military veterans. In 2004, the Office of Veteran’s Affairs added chiropractic care as an option for veterans. Since then, the number of veterans taking advantage of this service through VA care facilities has increased exponentially. The use of chiropractic […]
