Also, the chiropractic colleges are active in research as are several excellent research organizations which adhere to the strictest scientific standards. Here are a sampling of some of the most noteworthy research studies conducted since 1980. Total insurance payments for patients who received only medical care were thirty percent higher than those who were under the care of a chiropractor. Pran Manga, Ph.D. concluded that significant cost savings would occur if the management of low back pain were transferred from physicians to chiropractors. He determined that chiropractic is safer than medical management of low back pain.
Many medical therapies are of questionable validity or are dearly inadequate.
Chiropractic care is greatly superior to medical treatment in terms of scientific validity, safety, cost effectiveness and patient satisfaction. The results showed that chiropractic care was significantly more effective than medical treatment for patients with chronic and severe pain. Chiropractic was also shown to save the British more than 10 million pounds a year by having hospital out-patients with low back pain under chiropractic care. The twenty-month project was conducted by a government commission. It concluded that spinal adjusting is a vital, very safe and clinically effective form of health care.