"This part of
the website is dedicated to some of my favorite people, those of you
who are analytical and skeptics out there who constantly remind me to
not lay stagnant in my thinking and inspire me to continue to push
the limits of my knowledge base."
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.