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The following article comes from my friends at the Life Empowerment Wellness Center in Sandy Springs, GA. They are a holistic chiropractic office with practitioners who, like me, are generally concerned with preventative health care for wellness.  Chiropractic is not just for back pain! (see other myths here.)  Remember, your spinal cord is part of the central nervous system which controls vital organs that create “health”  (heart, lungs, liver, kidneys)……

What Would Happen if Chiropractors Were the Primary Care Doctors for Families?

A progressive thinking HMO in Illinois was investigating varied approaches to cutting costs while producing improved patient outcomes and patient satisfaction rates.  They took a very unconventional approach.  In their investigations they found that chiropractors had one of the broadest educational programs among all health professionals, they had extraordinary safety records for their treatments, they were able to treat patients from infants to seniors with similar results, they were trained when to refer to medical professionals and they had the highest patient satisfaction rate amongst licensed professionals.  On final decision, they chose chiropractors to be the PRIMARY physicians for the families in the test group.  They hypothesized that if patients could be first treated with safe, effective natural therapies (chiropractic care) to resolve the patient’s health concern then they would save thousands in surgeries, medications, side effects and hospitalizations.  The results were stunning!

The first conventional HMO in the U.S. to use doctors of chiropractic as primary care physicians found that after just two years of utilizing the primary care chiropractors, their hospitalizations were reduced by 80%, outpatient surgery was reduced by 85% and prescription drug use was reduced by 56%.

The HMO discovered a secret that the chiropractic profession has been trying to share with the world for more than 110 years now…safe, natural, conservative approaches delivered by doctors of chiropractic produce healthier bodies that are more able to heal from injuries, infections, ailments, and chronic disease.  The care simultaneously produces happier and more satisfied patients who are ready to create healthier lives.  Could you imagine the impact on the health and finances of our country if this health model was implemented across all our 50 states?