Did you know that Chiropractic patients return to work 10 times sooner at 10 times…

Did you know that Chiropractic patients return to work 10 times sooner at 10 times LESS the cost?

A 1991 study of workers' compensation claims comparing medical care to chiropractic care and reported in The Journal of Occupational Medicine found that chiropractic patients return to work ten times sooner after and injury. An interesting quote from the article was: 

"For the total data set, cost for care was significantly more for medical claims and compensation costs were ten-fold less for chiropractic claims."

  ICD-9 CODES: TOTAL COST (MEDICAL)   –   (CHIROPRACTIC)  
  Lumbar Disc:                        $8,175              $1,065  
  Neuritis/Radiculitis:               $2,154              $531  
  Sprain/Sacroiliac:                  $813                $537  
  Sprain/Strain Cervical:            $968                $586  
  Sprain/Strain Thoracic:           $487                $474  
  Sprain/Strain Lumbar:            $959                 $523  
 
Total cost of selected cases:    $13,556            $3,716  
Average cost per case:             $2,259             $619  

This study is important because it involved 3,062 separate injury cases.