Is chiropractic becoming a more popular choice of health care?
Chances are you have recently heard about chiropractic in the news. This is because the increasing interest in alternative forms of health care has caught the attention of several health associations, government agencies and news organizations around the nation. A 1993 study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that “The estimated number of visits made in 1990 to providers of unconventional therapy was greater than the number of visits to all primary care medical doctors nationwide”, and chiropractic was among the most frequently used non-medical therapies. A follow up report was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998. It found that the use of non-medical treatments had increased significantly since the 1990 survey, with “overall prevalence of use increased by 25%, total visits increased by an estimated 47%, and expenditures on services provided by practitioners of alternative therapies increased by an estimated 45%.
