In a study published in the October 2005 Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, authors Mitchell Haas, Rajiv Sharma and Miron Stano sought to better understand the cost effectiveness of chiropractic care. Their study measured clinical outcomes, provider costs and patient satisfaction related to the treatment of lower back pain. The study took place over […]

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 […]