Dr Anée Kruger

Overview

Facts About Chiropractic Chiropractic has become the third most used primary health care profession in the world, subsequent to medicine and dentistry. It is a fact that 80-90% of all people will suffer from back pain at least once in their lifetime. Lower back pain is second only to the common cold why people visit a health care professional. Chiropractic treatment produces superior results in terms of safety, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and patient satisfaction. Chiropractic care can improve productivity since: patients are shown to take fewer days sick leave, spend less time debilitated, use less medication for pain relief, have less chance of needing back surgery and have less chance of the pain becoming a chronic condition. To become a chiropractor one has to study for 6 years. Sleeping on your stomach is the worse position for your spine as it puts unnecessary stress on your neck, mid back and hips. The sound of an adjustment is due to the pressure in the joint space that increases causing the nitrogen or other gases to be “popped” from the liquid to gaseous form. This process takes a while to reoccur and therefore the joint won’t immediately “pop” again.