Almost 50% of chiropractic patients Go to see their chiropractor because they simply want to maintain their health and well being.
This is what chiropractors call Chiropractic Maintenance Care.
The idea with maintenance care is that regular adjustments will help maintain your spine and nervous system function at its optimal level and help you to be your best and to prevent new episodes of pain developing.
A study published by researchers from Sweden in 2018 followed 328 patients with low back pain who went to 40 different Swedish chiropractic clinics.
If the patients responded well when they were first adjusted, they joined the study and either received chiropractic maintenance care over the next year or symptom guided care.
The maintenance care patients were seen every one to three months.
What they found was that the maintenance care group experienced 13 fewer days of pain over the course of the study, on average, compared to the symptom guided group.
You can read more about this study & the results in our article: Chiropractic Maintenance Care.