Wellness Chiropractic Care is Key to Healthy Living

Wellness Chiropractic care ensure nervous system balance and improved health potential. By keeping your spinal nerves free from any blockage or interference your body has a greater potential and opportunity to be the best you can be. Just like continuing an exercise program and eating well in order to sustain the benefits of exercise and proper diet, it is necessary to continue chiropractic care to ensure your healthy lifestyle choices are in line with your wellness habits. Your chiropractic lifestyle is a wellness lifestyle.

When you make regular chiropractic care a part of your lifestyle, research states, people have less Medical and ER visits, people have less need for prescription drugs, people are more happy and live vitalistic lives and it is highly cost-effective as well.* 

* J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2010 (Nov);   33 (9):   640–643

Paid costs for episodes of care initiated with a DC were almost 40% less than episodes initiated with an MD. Even after risk adjusting each patient’s costs, we found that episodes of care initiated with a DC were 20% less expensive than episodes initiated with an MD. This clearly demonstrates the savings that are possible when a patient is permitted to choose a chiropractor, rather than an MD for their care.

Comparative Analysis of Individuals With and Without Chiropractic Coverage: Patient Characteristics, Utilization, and Costs

Archives of Internal Medicine 2004 (Oct 11);   164 (18):   1985–1892

"Access to managed chiropractic care may reduce overall health care expenditures through several effects, including (1) positive risk selection; (2) substitution of chiropractic for traditional medical care, particularly for spine conditions; (3) more conservative, less invasive treatment profiles; and (4) lower health service costs associated with managed chiropractic care."

Compared with doctor-only health plans, this study found that:

· Chiropractic care cut the cost of treating back pain by 28%.

· Chiropractic care reduced hospitalizations among back pain patients by 41%.

· Chiropractic care reduced back surgeries by 32%.

· Chiropractic care reduced the cost of medical imaging, such as X-rays or MRIs, by 37%.

The report appears in the Oct. 11, 2004 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.