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New Surveys Shine Light on
Chiropractic
A magazine not normally shown to be favorable to
chiropractic, Consumer Reports, (CR), conducted a survey
of its readers to determine their views on what they
called "Alternative Medicine." Although the term does
not really fit chiropractic, since we are not a
medicine, CR did include chiropractic into that
category. The results of the survey were favorable
toward alternatives in general and chiropractic in
particular. Here are some of the results.
1. Over 60 % of CR readers who used an "alternative" did
tell their MD about it. Years ago this number would have
not been even close to that.
2. Over 35% of those in the survey had used an
alternative. Most of these went because they did not get
help from other means with their health problem.
3. Over 25% of those in the survey who used alternatives
used chiropractic.
Respondents who used chiropractic with back problems
rated chiropractic more effective than medications or
physical therapy.
4.When the respondents told their MDs about going for
"alternative" care only 5% got a negative response,
while 40% got a neutral response and an amazing 55%
expressed approval.
5. Of those surveyed 9% said they used alternative care
before trying medical care.
In addition to the Consumer Reports survey they
mentioned that several national telephone surveys showed
that over half of all North Americans ages 35 to 49 have
tried "alternatives". In a recent survey in Minnesota,
48% said they had tried what that survey called
"complementary therapy", (again a poor choice of terms
to include chiropractic). Of that number a full 70% said
they used chiropractic.
Considering the growing number of people who go to
chiropractors, and considering the high level of patient
satisfaction, maybe it is time to reconsider what type
of care is actually alternative? Chiropractic, by every
measure, is now in the main-stream.
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