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Chiropractic care is a safe, effective health care system for the whole family.  While no health care is completely risk-free, few can match chiropractic’s safety; it’s gentle, non-invasive, drug-free methods benefit all age groups, from newborn infants to seniors and all ages in between.

 Chiropractic is the largest natural health-care profession for good reason…It’s safe and it works!

 If we’re going to be measuring safety, the stats must be put into perspective.  Our standard reference is modern medicine.

 How safe is medicine?

 Most people run to the M.D. for every scrape, sniffle, and fever, but few realize the inherent risks of drugs and medical care. 

How about drugs?

 Adverse drug reactions kill nearly 200,000 people every year in the U.S.  In Canada, up to 30,000 people die from drug reactions.  Hundreds of thousands more are seriously injured.  Up to 30% of all hospital admissions are for adverse drug reactions.

 Surgical deaths?

Neck surgery has a 1 in 70 risk of paralysis.  The death rate from the anesthesia alone is 1 in 100. 

Medical mistakes?

 Dr. Lucian Leape, M.D., found that medical errors cause 180,000 deaths per year, the equivalent of 3 jumbo jet crashes every 2 days.  Serious injuries from medical errors bring this number up to as many as 3 million per year.

In Canada, drugs and medical care cause 40,000 to 50,000 deaths per year making it the 3^rd leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.

Sound scary???  It is.

 What about good ol’ Aspirin?

 Anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin cause 3000 deaths per million people by bleeding ulcers.  Aspirin, (the one a day habit) has been shown to cause up to 7000 strokes per million people using it.

 The fact remains, and evidence proves, that “bad medicine” hurts, cripples and kills more people in 24 hours than the Chiropractic profession has been accused of harming in more than 100 years.

 The risks associated with a chiropractic adjustment are so minimal, they’re nearly impossible to measure.  A lot of media lies and political deceit has surfaced.  The studies say

serious neurological outcomes can be as low as 1 in 10 million.  The latest study published in the Canadian Medical Journal said serious adverse reactions are estimated at approximately 1 in 6 million adjustments.  To put these into perspective…

 ♠ It is up to 10 times more likely to have a stroke at random chance, than to suffer one from a chiropractic adjustment.

 ♠ Any given person is more likely to be struck by lightning multiple times than suffer any permanent consequence from a chiropractic adjustment.

♠ It is statistically more dangerous to travel to the chiropractic office in a car than is the adjustment itself.

 ♠ Statistics show the chiropractor is more at risk performing an adjustment than the patient is in receiving one. 

The truth of the matter is, that every single day chiropractors are saving lives keeping people away from dangerous drugs and surgery.  The most common outcome is, by far…improved health.