News posted on February 08, 2009 06:23
Two hundred pediatricians and two hundred chiropractors
were surveyed to determine what, if any, differences were to be
found in the health status of children who routinely received
either medical care or Chiropractic care.
With usable responses of 35% from the chiropractors and
36% from the pediatricians, analysis of the results indicates a
definite correlation between Chiropractic care and superior
health. While the ‘medical’ children had a history of fewer
childhood diseases, they also had received a considerably higher
percentage of childhood immunizations (94%), as compared to
the ‘Chiropractic’ children (25%).
The ‘Chiropractic’ children showed a 69% otitis media-free
response, while the ‘medical’ children only had a 20% otitis
media-free response.
Pediatricians were more likely to feel that every child would
have been on a course of antibiotics at least once, and some
suggested that almost 100% of children suffer from otitis media,
whereas many chiropractors reported that children under their
care had never been on antibiotics The occurrence of infectious diseases was significantly less among the Chiropractic sample.
The results of the study confirm the benefits of the
Chiropractic model of healthcare on the health status of children.
SOURCE: http://www.chiro.org/research/ABSTRACTS/Comparative_Study_of_the_Health_Status.html