It is estimated that up to 15 million people suffer from asthma. Of those, 14.8 million are children under the age of 18. In 1993 alone, there were 198,000 hospitalizations for asthma. In the 5-17 age group, asthma causes an annual loss of more than 10 million school days per year.
Asthma accounts for more childhood hospitalizations than any other childhood disease.
Children with asthma spend approximately 7.3 million days per year restricted to bed rest. In 1990, there were 7.1 million physician visits for asthma. More than 5,200 Americans died from asthma in 1991. Subluxations are when bones in the spine pressure or irritate nerves causing abnormal nerve function. An article appearing in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research Vol.