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.