Lost productivity, lost time, lost wages and medical expenses are costly. The cost of back pain to employers is astronomical. Chiropractic care can significantly reduce the amount of recovery time so employees can get back to work sooner. In Minnesota, chiropractic patients return to work 10 times sooner at 10 times less the cost than other back injury patients. In Victoria, Australia, a one-year study of all workplace injuries involving back pain compared chiropractic and medical care and concluded that patients receiving chiropractic care required fewer compensation days to recover.
Chiropractic care is cost effective.
A 1991 study published in the Utah Journal of Occupational Medicine compared chiropractic and medical care of the same diagnosis and found chiropractic care was 73 percent more cost effective per case in a study that examined over 3,000 cases. Employers should take note of this. On a national and state level, documentation shows that employees file fewer disability claims after chiropractic treatment than after medical treatment. Employees treated by chiropractors also have less time off work per injury than employees treated by other medical providers. Chiropractic care is a cost and time effective alternative to traditional medical care of back injury.