Chiropractic

Properly prescribed medications may kill more than 100,000 people a year, taking more lives than diabetes or pneumonia, according to an analysis released in the Journal of the American Medical Association on April 15, 1998.

The study estimates that 76,000 to 137,000 people died in 1994 from such treatments. That would make so-called adverse drug reactions between the sixth and fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Moreover, of the 33 million hospitalized patients in 1994, some 2.2 million had a nonfatal reaction serious enough to require medical attention. It’s a small percentage but is it a risk you want to take when chiropractic care is a drug free treatment?

Why would you treat the symptoms of a problem rather than the cause of the problem?

“The nervous system controls and coordinates all organs and structures of the human body.” (Gray’s Anatomy, 29th Ed., Page 4.) Chiropractic treats the cause of many illnesses and ailments by aligning the spine, thereby relieving the cause of nerve irritation and allowing your body and nervous system to heal themselves.

Medical doctors often use a treatment form called palliative which means “serving to relieve without curing.” As an example, medical doctors may tell you that you have a “common or vascular or cluster or migraine headache” and prescribe aspirin or other medication to relieve the pain but not the cause of the pain--Which makes for a recurring problem.