25 Reasons to Get a Massage November 5, 2018 AMTA According to the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) Consumer Survey, 67 percent of individuals surveyed claim their primary reason for receiving a massage in the previous 12 months was medical (41…
Back Surgery: Too Many, Too Costly, Too Ineffective
Most Americans fail to realize the huge economic impact of the medical industrial complex until they feel the crunch from unpaid medical bills that caused 62 percent of all personal bankruptcies filed in the U.S. in 2007, according to a…
Study Suggests Availability of Chiropractic Care Improves Value of Health Benefit Plans
from Dynamic Chiropractic A report commissioned by the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (FCP) and prepared by a global leader for trusted human resources and related financial advice, products and services has found that the addition of chiropractic care for the…
Headache Solutions: Save Billions With Chiropractic Care?
by Dr. Mark Studin from Dynamic Chiropractic Much of the public perceive headaches and migraines as normal occurrences. For example, a patient will enter a doctor’s office and report that they experience “normal” headaches, not realizing that pain is never…
Chiropractic Saves Insurers $15.8 Billion, Adds $692 Million in Wages to Americans
by Dr. Mark Studin from Dynamic Chiropractic Consider the chiropractic impact of exposing the public to treatment that could avoid needless surgeries, using the 400,000 disc surgeries as a conservative number, not to mention how this could reduce the unnecessary…
Headaches, Drugs, and Chiropractic
by Charles Masarsky, DC, FICC Headache sufferers have been reportedly helped by chiropractic adjustments since the profession’s early days. Misalignments or restrictions (subluxations) in the spine, particularly in the upper part of the neck, can irritate nerves that provide pain…
Study Suggests Chiropractic Reduces Health Care Costs, Need for Surgery
from Dynamic Chiropractic Findings from the Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield 2008 Physical Medicine Pilot on Quality, a one-year pilot program designed to measure patient quality of care, suggest significant clinical outcomes and health care cost reductions attributable to…
What Works Best for Neck Pain: Manipulation, Exercise or Both?
by Malik Slosberg, DC, MS from Dynamic Chiropractic Pressing questions for the chiropractic profession include: How effective are chiropractic adjustments for neck pain? Does the addition of exercise improve the benefits of adjustments for neck pain? What is the evidence?…
Chiropractic vs. Medicine for Acute LBP: No Contest
from Dynamic Chiropractic The study found that after 16 weeks of care, patients referred to medical doctors saw almost no improvement in their disability scores, were likely to still be taking pain drugs and saw no benefit with added physical…
The Real Cause of Iliotibial Band Syndrome
by Thomas Michaud, DC from Dynamic Chiropractic New research by authors Ferber and Fairclough, et al. claim this injury is not necessarily caused by snapping back and forth over the lateral femoral condyle, as earlier research suggested. Click here to…