It is cruelly ironic that the greatest contributors to human welfare are the most persecuted. Chiropractors have told the world for 100 years the terrible consequences of neglecting spinal care. MRI and CAT scan proves it. We do not know the incidence yet, but we can suspect that most people in the world over age 35 would show evidence of it.
Spinal disease is the leading cause and cost of workers' disability.
Yet, medicine relentlessly resists and opposes the chiropractic battle to fight this category of degenerative disease. Looking back into the history of medicine's behavior, we find a pattern. To give an example or two will suffice. In the 1800's, Samuel Semmiliveiss announced that child bed fever, which killed millions of postpartum mothers, was caused by filthy hands, instruments, and materials used during delivery. He was at first ridiculed, disgraced, and then ostracized from the medical profession to die in ignominy.