Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Chiropractor in Weymouth MA - chiropractor south shore boston - neck pain chiropractor weymouth ma

Recently I was told of a story about a patient's medical doctorwho stated " don't have the chiropractor adjust your neck". Some of you may wonder why he said this.
I have heard this from many medical doctors over the years. Medical doctors have next to no training in chiropractic and spinal bio-mechanics. The fear is that the chiropractor will cause injury to arteries and nerves. We will not cause injury since we are highly trained professionals in this field. In fact the malpractice insurance companies only charge on average about $1000 per year in premiums for 3 Million dollars of coverage.

Every day for over 115 years chiropractors have been adjusting the neck and the incidence is less likely than getting injured by lightning just look at the small premium we pay for 3 million worth of coverage. The underwriters know how remote this is.

So why do the medical doctors say this? Well with little to no education on chiropractic they base their statements on story's that someone told them that may not even be true. Most MD's have never seen a neck adjustment, never received one and have never attended any seminars or read any chiropractic textbooks, so all of this misinformation is just passed along. This erroneous information makes it hard on the chiropractic profession so please pass this along.