76% Less Risk with Chiropractor in Mataró

76%: Fewer Risks with Chiropractic Care

A study published in the medical journal «Spine»December 9, 2014", showed that among the people who benefited from the health care program, A visit to the chiropractor was much safer than a visit to the doctor primary care. A second study published by Hindawi, December 25, 2014, showed that there was no evidence of injury following the chiropractic adjustments.

In the study published in *Spine*, the researchers reviewed the records of individuals enrolled in the health care program who had received chiropractic care in 2007, looking for reports of injuries. Specifically, they reviewed the records of «… older adults with a neuromusculoskeletal complaint, to assess the risk of head, neck, or trunk injury following a clinic visit for a specific chiropractic spinal adjustment, compared with clinic visits for an evaluation performed by a primary care physician.».

The results of this study clearly indicated that a visit to a chiropractor, who performed an adjustment, it was safer that a visit to their doctor for an evaluation. The study did not take into account the possible increased risk of any form of medical treatment or medication since the medical comparison was conducted only among «…those evaluated by a primary care physician.».

The study examined records up to seven days after the visit to the chiropractor or doctor. When calculating the risk of injury for both doctor visits and chiropractic visits, the researchers reported that «The cumulative probability of injury in the chiropractic group was 40 injury incidents per 100,000 people, compared with 153 cases per 100,000 people in the primary care group.” This shows that, despite not being a form of healthcare, chiropractic care was much safer, with virtually no risk.

In their conclusions, the authors wrote: «Among beneficiaries of the medical assistance program aged 66–99 who had visited a doctor’s office for a neuromusculoskeletal problem, the risk of injury to the head, neck, or trunk within 7 days was a lower 76% among the subjects who visited the chiropractic clinic, comparing them to those who saw a primary care physician.».

In the second study published by the Hindawi researchers, they conducted a «randomized controlled trial» to examine blood function following chiropractic adjustments, to see if there were any chemical changes that would normally be present after a spinal cord injury. They compared these results with a control group that received placebo or sham adjustments.

The Results showed no signs an increase in the levels of any chemical that would have been present if the subjects had been injured.

Based on these results, the researchers concluded: “Our data show no changes in any of the markers of injury studied. Although this study examined outcomes in a symptomatic population, specific chiropractic adjustment techniques applied to the upper cervical and thoracic spine appeared to be safe and did not cause any harm to the subjects’ health. These data can be used as evidence of the safe application of specific spinal adjustments for healthy subjects.

Study of spine

http://whitleybaychiropractic.co.uk/study-spine-journal-chiropractic-safe-older-adults/