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…
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…
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 Healthy Aging Practice: The Mechanical Side of Slowing Down the Aging Process (Part 4) – Correcting the Leg-Length Discrepancy
by Jeffrey Tucker, DC, DACRB from Dynamic Chiropractic How to discover if your chronic pain is a leg length discrepancy and how to correct it. Treatment and regular exercise can help correct posture/imbalance, overuse injuries and increase leg strength. To…
The Newest Public-Health Epidemic: Sitting Too Much, Moving Too Little
by Paul Hooper, DC, MPH, MS from Dynamic Chiropractic A follow up to the previous article “Sit or Stand? Strategies to Improve Workplace Health and Reduce Disease.” Partly due to rising health costs and the awareness that sitting for long…
Dynamic Chiropractic
When doctors of chiropractic need reliable, comprehensive news and information about their profession and their practices, they read Dynamic Chiropractic. Twenty-six issues a year, nearly 40 columnists and regular contributors, consistent editorial that is always relevant to our readers, and…
Don’t Call It Pampering: Massage Wants to Be Medicine
by Andrea Petersen for WallStreetJournal.com While massage may have developed a reputation as a decadent treat for people who love pampering, new studies are showing it has a wide variety of tangible health benefits. To read full article click here…
Massage Therapy
The Benefits of Massage What exactly are the benefits of receiving massage or bodywork treatments? Useful for all of the conditions listed below and more, massage can: Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion. Assist with shorter, easier labor…