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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
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