SOLUTION
#3
Chiropractic care is safe.
A chiropractor can purchase a $1 million/$3 million professional liability policy for
less than $2,000 a year.
In 2015, similar coverages for medical doctors 17 were as follows:
- Internal Medicine: $5,100
- General Surgeon: $21,118
- OB/Gyn: $22,165
Short-term soreness is known to follow chiropractic care, but serious adverse events
following chiropractic care are rare. Short-term soreness under chiropractic care is
no greater than with other manual care.
“Existing literature indicates that benign adverse events following manual
treatments to the spine are common, while serious adverse events are rare.” 18
“We judged the quality of evidence as high that transient minor musculoskeletal
adverse events are common following SMT, although they may be equally com-
mon following non-SMT manual therapy.” 19
Risk of injury among Medicare recipients is lower following chiropractic care than
primary care medicine.
“Among Medicare beneficiaries aged 66 to 99 years with an office visit for a
neuro-musculoskeletal problem, risk of injury to the head, neck or trunk within
seven days was 76 percent lower among subjects with a chiropractic office visit
than among those who saw a primary care physician.” 20
Risk of injury following use of alternatives to chiropractic care, such as NSAIDS, is
higher than under chiropractic care.
“Some of our included reviews indicate that NSAIDs involve a substantially higher
risk of SAEs ... than SMT.” 21
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