Chiropractic
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What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is one of health care’s best-kept secrets. As the largest natural health profession in the world, it has helped millions restore function and vitality without relying on drugs or surgery. Research shows that people under chiropractic care experience fewer surgeries, use fewer medications, and report far fewer ongoing health issues than the general population. Unsurprisingly, chiropractic consistently achieves some of the highest satisfaction rates in all of health care.
Chiropractic works by restoring health naturally. At its core, true health depends on a strong spinal foundation and a clear brain–body connection. Through careful assessment and precise adjustments, chiropractic restores proper motion and balance—helping the body adapt to stress, perform better in everyday life, and prevent future health challenges.
Regular chiropractic care strengthens the body from the inside out, boosting resilience, enhancing well-being, and reducing the likelihood of illness.
Importantly, chiropractic is not limited to those with specific complaints — it is for everybody regardless of symptoms, age, mental or physical condition. Due to its exceptional high levels of safety and effectiveness, more than 50 million people choose chiropractic annually —to protect their health, enhance their performance, and live with greater vitality, naturally.
Physical benefits
- Pain Relief
- Improves Posture, Balance and Mobility
- Enhances nervous system function
- Supports Injury recovery
- Reduces muscle tension and stiffness
- May Support Immune System Function
- Supports overall physical well-being
- Enhances joint health and function
Emotional Benefits
- Boosted overall wellbeing
- Greater sense of calm and balance
- Improved stress resilience
- Increased confidence in your body
Mental Benefits
- Better focus and concentration
- Improved sleep quality
- Reduced “brain fog”
Improved cognitive performance
Chiropractic care is highly effective. According to Dr. Michael Schneider, Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh:
“Overwhelming evidence shows that chiropractors tend to have very high patient satisfaction rates. From a public health perspective, we’d see a lot fewer unnecessary tests, hospitalizations, and opioid prescriptions if people visited chiropractors for their back and neck pain.”
In addition to the older Magna Report (Ontario, 1993), more recent evidence continues to back up chiropractic’s benefits. The 2018 Lancet Low Back Pain Series emphasized non-pharmacologic, manual treatments — including spinal manipulation — as key first-line options for managing low back pain.
Systematic reviews and updated clinical practice guidelines also reinforce this: spinal manipulation plus exercise and patient education are regularly recommended over rest or medication alone for low, subacute, and chronic low back pain.
Is chiropractic effective?
Natural chiropractic
Chiropractic is the world’s largest natural health care profession. By focusing on the spine and nervous system, chiropractors strengthen the brain–body connection and support health naturally. The goal of chiropractic care is to improve function, correct postural issues, reduce pain, and enhance the body’s natural ability to heal.
In addition to spinal adjustments, chiropractors may also use:
- Breathing techniques
- Relaxation and visualization strategies
- Exercises to strengthen and stabilize the body
Nutrition and lifestyle guidance
Rather than simply treating pain and symptoms, chiropractic care helps restore balance to the body, improving resilience to stress, enhancing function, and supporting overall health.
Scientific evidence regarding the safety of chiropractic
Since its beginning in 1895, chiropractic has consistently proven to be one of the safest health care professions in the world. Like any form of health care, it is not entirely risk-free, but the potential risks linked to chiropractic care are generally minor and short-lived.
The primary intervention used by chiropractors is the spinal adjustment. The most common side effects reported are mild muscle soreness, dizziness, headache, or tingling in the arms or legs — all of which are rare and temporary.
A large UK study reviewing 20,000 patient files found no serious adverse effects and only a small number of minor ones. A follow-up study of 500 patients conducted a year later confirmed that these minor effects did not impact the longer-term benefits (at three months) of chiropractic care. Both studies were published in the respected medical journal Spine.
Scientific evidence supporting chiropractic
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines chiropractic as “a health care profession concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders of the neuromusculoskeletal system, and the effects of these disorders on general health.”
Today, chiropractic is recognized as a primary health care profession in the majority of EU member states as well as many countries worldwide. These include France, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, all of the Nordic countries, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and others. Because of its strong safety record and evidence of effectiveness, many of these countries have formally integrated chiropractic into their national health care systems.
As the WHO further notes, “Chiropractic places an emphasis on manual treatments including spinal adjustments, other joint manipulation, and patient education.” For this reason, the studies highlighted in the dossier below focus on the most widely used chiropractic interventions and their impact on patient outcomes.
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