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Arthritis
Patients Turn to Chiropractic
The
Annals of Internal Medicine (of all places) published the results
of a survey of 232 people who had arthritis and were under a
rheumatologists care. Of
those 63% responded to the survey by saying they were using some
form of "complementary care" as named by the study.
Of those people 31% were using chiropractic.
These number may themselves be grossly under reported as
only 45% of the patients told their doctor about using the other
forms of care.
These
reported numbers translate to over 19% of the public who is seeing
a rheumatologists is also seeing a chiropractor.
And if less that half of the patients are telling their
doctor about it the actual number may be twice as high.Possibly
the most impressive statistic was that 73% of those trying
chiropractic found it helpful.
The reasons given why people said they tried the
non-medical care was to control pain, because they heard it helps,
because it is safe, because it helped someone they know, and
because their prescription medication wasn't working.
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