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.
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.