After decades of negative publications, advertising and accusations against Chiropractic care, the College of Family Physicians of Canada has finally taken an honest look at Chiropractic care, and the results surprised them.

Medicine continues to have a stranglehold on healthcare, even for ailments that they treat poorly, specifically, back pain. The successful outcomes for back pain lies in the structural and neurological stability of the injury, not in the sedation of pain by medication. Multiple medical studies found that the use of NSAIDS, Opiates and Muscle relaxers are not the best option for treating back pain, while Chiropractic has shown to be the better option.

When determining Effectiveness of Care, Adverse Reactions, Cost of Care and Patient Satisfaction of Care, Chiropractic (SMT) proved to be more successful for back pain than did Medical Care.

The Canadian Medical Field asked itself a serious question in the report: ” Who should be the gatekeepers of patients presenting with Musculoskeletal Complaints?”

That comment really means, “Chiropractic should be the FIRST course of treatment for back pain and we should help with medication when asked.”

Can Fam Physician. 2017 Sep; 63(9): 669, 670, 672.