Chiropractic Saves Money, Reduces Hospital Admissions, Days Hospitalized, 
Medication, and More <RESEARCH>
Incredible reduction in hospitalizations, medical services, surgeries, and costs when Doctors of Chiropractic were used as first contact providers.
Check out these numbers when a Chiropractor was seen first…
In an Independent Practice Association which permitted patients to select a Doctor Of Chiropractic as their primary care physician, clinical and cost utilization based on 70,274 member months over a 7 year time frame demonstrated that seeing a Chiropractor resulted in:
- 60.2% decrease in hospital admissions (!!),
- 59% decrease in hospital days,
- 62% decrease in outpatient surgeries and procedures, and
- 85% medication costs when compared with conventional medicine.
These were across the board savings regardless of types of health care challenges – illnesses, diseases, and all injuries, not just back pain and neck pain cases.
Sarnat RL, Winterstein J, Cambron JA: Clinical utilization and cost outcomes from an integrative medicine independent physician association: an additional 3-year update. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2007 May;30(4):263-9.
From the study conclusion:
“During the past 7 years, and with a larger population than originally reported, the CAM-oriented PCPs using a nonsurgical/nonpharmaceutical approach demonstrated reductions in both clinical and cost utilization when compared with PCPs using conventional medicine alone.”
My comments about the study…
- This is study is not a double-blinded type of research.
- The researchers simply looked at the data reported with patients using a Chiropractor first versus using an MD (of various specialties).
- It adds support to other studies that have demonstrated Chiropractic can help save money, reduce medication use, and avoid surgery.
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Study referenced above: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17509435
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