Who Uses Chiropractic?

Chiropractic patients include whole families, newborn babies, young adults, adults, seniors, farmers, college professors, actors, factory workers and world class athletes–in other words, everyone!

In addition to chiropractic's reputation in helping people with a natural approach to symptoms and disease, chiropractic is also preventive health care at its best. Patients often find their quality of life improved in many ways regardless of their entering state of health.

Chiropractic services are in high demand. Tens of millions of Americans routinely opt for chiropractic services, and this number is rapidly growing. In 1993, more than 30 million consumers made chiropractic a regular part of their health care program.

A 1998 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association by David M. Eisenberg, M.D., classifying chiropractic as the major alternative medicine profession, found a 47-percent increase in total visits to alternative medicine practitioners (primarily chiropractors) from 1990 to 1997. The alternative medicine practitioner visits increased from 427 million in 1990 to 629 million in 1997, exceeding total visits to all U.S. primary care physicians.

The population of doctors of chiropractic in active practice in the United States is estimated to be 53,000. The ratio of D.C.s to the general population, based on the Bureau of the Census figures, is estimated to be one doctor of chiropractic for every 5,100 citizens. Clearly, more doctors of chiropractic are needed to care for the population.

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