Chiropractic Research

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Raymond Sue, B.Sc., D.C.

Chiropractic being the third largest health care profession in the United States today has had a long track record of studies which support and prove the effectiveness of chiropractic care for a variety of different health ailments. In fact, these studies have been done not just by Doctors of Chiropractic but also by other health professionals as well as by the federal government in the U.S. and various other countries.

The chiropractic profession has actually accumulated a greater number of scientific trials than the medical profession has for many of the more common treatments rendered by medical doctors.

"Only 15% of all medical interventions are supported by solid scientific evidence"

David M. Edy, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Health Policy and Management

Duke University, North Carolina

 

The following statement was made by Dr. Shekelle of the independent research group the RAND Corporation regarding chiropractic care on ABC's 20/20.

"There are considerably more randomized controlled trials which show benefit of this (chiropractic) than there are for many, many other things which physicians and neurosurgeons do all the time."

Paul G. Shekelle, M.D., MPH

RAND Corporation

While a complete review of all the current literature and research that's been done on chiropractic is not my intention, here's some highlights of the studies that have been done on chiropractic's effectiveness for low back pain, headaches and more recently how chiropractic works at a neurological level.



Exercise and Manipulative Therapy Have a Lasting Effect On Reducing the Symptoms of Cervicogenic Hea
What About Headaches?
A study done in Australia of 200 headache suffers concluded that both manipulative therapy and specific exercises significantly reduced headache frequency and intensity, and the neck pain and effects were maintained. The combined therapies were not significantly superior to either therapy alone, but 10% more patients gained relief with the combination.

Jull G, Trott P, Potter H, Zito G, Niere K, Shirley D, Emberson J, Marschner I, Richardson C. A randomized controlled trial of exercise and manipulative therapy for cervicogenic headache. Spine 2002 Sep 1; 7(17) : 1835 -43; discussion 1843

 
Chiropractic For Infantile Colic
Chiropractic and Non-musculoskeletal Conditions

The effects of spinal manipulation were looked at and compared to the effects of the drug dimethicone for 2 weeks on a group of infants. The main outcome measure used was the changes in daily hours of crying . By trial days 4 to 7, hours of crying were reduced by 1 hour in the dimethicone group compared with 2.4 hours in the manipulation group. On days 8 to 11, crying was reduced by 1 hour for the diemethicone group, whereas crying in the manipulation group was reduced by 2.7 hours. From trial day 5 onward the manipulation group did significantly better than the dimethicone group. Conclusion: Spinal manipulation is effective in relieving infantile colic.

Wiberg JM, Nordsteen J, Nilsson N. The short-term effect of spinal manipulation in the treatment of infantile colic: a randomized controlled clinical trial with a blinded observer. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 1999 Oct;22(8):517-22.

 

 
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