The safety of chiropractic care has been well documented in
professional journals of all kinds. Serious side-effects of
chiropractic manipulative therapy occur approximately one out of every one
million adjustments.
Compare this to the serious side-effects of medicines and surgical
errors to put safety in perspective. Research reveals that some
100,000 people die each year from the effects of prescription drugs that
were prescribed by their doctors.
Now this isn't meant to be "M.D. bashing", it's just the
simple truth about the safety of prescription medications, as reported in
the Journal of the American Medical Association (April 1998).
The article continues to say, "Discovering new dangers of drugs
after marketing is common. Overall, 51% of approved drugs have
serious adverse effects not detected prior to approval. Merely
discovering adverse effects is not by itself sufficient to protect the
public. Each year prescription drugs injure 1.5 million people so
severely they require hospitalization and 100,000 die, making prescription
drugs the 4th leading cause of death in the United States."
So the question was about the safety of chiropractic care?
