Because 80% of the population will experience low back pain sometime in life and because low back pain absenteeism is second only to upper respiratory infections, the Ohio State Chiropractic Association thought you might be interested in the following information.

Rand corporation Study (1)

• 67% of patients suffering from back pain visited chiropractic physicians at a cost of $2.4 billion.


• 33% of patients suffering from back pain visited medical providers at a cost of $8 billion.

Journal of occupational Medicine Study (2)
This study compared chiropractic care to medical care on 3,062 cases for injured workiers with the same diagnostic problem.

• Chiropractic care was 73% more cost effective per case.
  The average distribution cost per office visit was 67% less for chiropractic that a medical office visit.


• Patients seeing doctors of chiropractic were able to return to work 10 tiomes sooner than those under medical care.

Chiropractic Journal of Australia (3)
This study compared medical management verses treatment and concluded:

• Compensation time with chiropractic management is 25% of the total number of days of claims with medical management.


• The occurrence of chronicity was greater with medical management - 11.6% occurrence with medical management compared to 1.9% occurrence with chiropractic.


• The average cost of claims was $2,038 for medical, $963 for chiropractic.

University of Virginia Study (4)
This study concluded that chiropractors see their patients more frequently but have lower overall costs for most of the conditions considered.

MEDSTAT Project (5)

• Concluded that plans that have limited or no chiropractic coverage have the highest total costs per patient.


• Broader coverage of chiropractic services results in dramatically lower health care costs:
  
  • *35% lower hospital admissions rates
  
  
  • *42% lower inpatient payments
  
  
  • *23% lower total health care costs
  
  

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