PATIENT TESTIMONIALS

'the adjustments worked wonders in relieving my pain and stiffness’
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‘I was given an adjustment and couldn’t believe how much straighter I was immediately’
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‘I have a maintenance treatment or ‘spinal MOT’ once a month which keeps me mobile and lets me live the life I want to’
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RESEARCH SUPPORTS CHIROPRACTIC

"…patients receiving chiropractic care for lower back pain were more satisfied with their care than patients receiving hospital out patient care.”
British Medical Journal, 1995

"…chiropractic has been demonstrated to be more effective for the management of lower back pain than conventional hospital"
British Medical Journal, 2004

" The treatment of lumbar intervertebral disc ……is both safe and effective.”
Journal of Manipulative and physiological therapeutics, 1993

Numerous surveys and reviews throughout the world have indicated that chiropractic treatment is safe.
Here are some examples...

"...a survey at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College outpatient clinic where more that a half-million treatments were given over a nine year period without serious incident”
Haldeman S, Chapman-Smith D, Petersen DM. Guidelines for chiropractic quality assurance and practice parameters. Gaithersburg, Md: Aspen Publishers, 1993: 170-2.

"…..offered a report of 168,000 clinical neck manipulations over a 28 year period, again without a single significant complication”
Eder M, Tilscher H. Chiropractic therapy: diagnosis and treatment. Rockville, Md: Aspen Publishers, 1990: 61.

"... the authors concluded that the risk of serious neurological complications (from cervical manipulation) is extremely low and is approximately one or two per million cervical manipulations”
Haldeman S, Chapman-Smith D, Petersen DM. Guidelines for chiropractic quality assurance and practice parameters. Gaithersburg, Md: Aspen Publishers, 1993: 170-2.

In other words, cases of serious injury are practically non-existent. The statistics above are more striking when compared to other forms of medical intervention. For example...

"There is a 3-4% rate of complications for cervical spine surgery, and 4,000-10,000 deaths per million neck surgeries"
The cervical spine research society editorial committee. The Cervical Spine, Second edition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1990: 834

"Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are the fourth to sixth greatest killer in the US with more than 100,000 deaths per year; and 2.2 million serious adverse reactions per year."
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA 279: 1200 1998)

The excerpts outlined above are not intended to portray pharmaceutical or surgical intervention negatively, but rather to illustrate that all clinical procedures carry an inherent risk, and that comparatively, Chiropractic care is remarkably safe.

Additionally, patients can be further assured when seeking Chiropractic care in the UK by ensuring that their Chiropractor is a member of the General Chiropractic Council (the UK’s statutory regulatory body for the Chiropractic profession), and the British Chiropractic Association which was founded in 1925 and represents over 50% of UK Chiropractors

At City Centre Chiropractic, all our Chiropractors are fully qualified and registered with the General Chiropractic Council and British Chiropractic Association.